Poetry: Megha Sood

Megha Sood

We are Poets

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.” 

― Friedrich Nietzsche

We all are trying to touch the bottom of the madness

the absolute end:

to visualize how far we can stretch our insanity

and how much it can

take the pressure and survive

till it breaks down and

shatters into small bits of

craziness and false identity

We all are trying to get to this bottomless pit

scraping and digging our way down

building our own graves

like a scared mouse,

clutching its way down

blinding running away from the reality

We are all trying to

get to the end of this abyss

the pandemonium;

to save our souls

living in the dreadful reality

We let our parched quill

scratch and pull at the scabs

to feel the essence of words

buried deep in our psyche

We let it soak in the crimson blood

of our proverbial existence

running deep in our fecund veins

mocking our mortality

We are poets,

We all are trying to

touch the bottom of the

madness,

one which gives

voice to our deep soliloquy

We are poets,

an epitome of insanity.

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Setu, April 2023