Poetry: Pranab Ghosh

Pranab Ghosh

Politics, Love and Betrayal

I have come to know...

I did not know!

I learnt to walk...

I do not remember...

I realized the importance 

of the 'word'...

The power of its alphabets,

their sequential placements

perhaps the day I fell...

got hurt...

perhaps even 'bled'...

and then in all likelihood 

perhaps...

must have

stood up

and 

'walked'!

Otherwise how would

I have reached this place...

Today?

I must have

'Fallen'...

I must have 

'Risen'...

I must have

'Gathered'

Myself

And

Must

Have

'Walked'...

Must have...

But today

'walking'

has become

difficult 

as

pain, liquid and blue

runs through my veins

tearing into my soul

and corrupting my heart...

Or

does it really?

Perhaps you have failed

Perhaps they have failed

At least for the

Day...

My heart still throbs

I still feel the blue pain

burst open at crucial

parts of my body, opening 

up festering wounds

that give 'dirty' looks at me

And I shudder!

But refuse to hate myself

and adopt your

'corrupt'

ways

I refuse to hate the

people, who have joined 

you

for

fear

or

favor!

I refuse...

I refuse...

I refuse...

But I swear...

To live another day

To avenge the...

...Humiliation 

...Insult

...Dishonor 

...Rape

And

perhaps...

The mother of

all emotions...

'BETRAYAL'

...

Let pain itself

suck the poison

out of the veins

Let 'blue' hyacinth 

bloom in the 'muck'

you have cultivated

in the deep lake of 

'clear water'!

Let us all dredge

'muck'

pain

death

Out of our Lives!

Let

Our

Existence

Triumph

Over

The

Decree

Of

The

Usurpers!

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Bio: Pranab Ghosh is an internationally published award-winning journalist, writer and poet. His third anthology of poems, Karma Cola, has been published by the UK-based Impspired.com in June 2023. His fourth anthology of poems, Love, Religion and Politics is slated for release shortly.

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Setu, July 2023