Friday, 6 May 2022

Hoping a New Hope


 Hoping a new hope,

Wishing a new wish;

Empty words out of a hollow mind,

Or aimless wanderings of a lost soul?


Departed, skewed, 

Tortured, brutalized,

Lie the insides of my being;

The earnestness of youth fatally wounded by the jarring world...


Lost in merriment

lie the ignorant, wretched;

The curse of knowledge, awareness 

Meanwhile bun the hopeful alive


The cruelty of life,

Its meaninglessness;

Buried in the ashes,

Hopes & Dreams.


Ashen, Disheveled, 

Dirty, Grimy

Tear-soaked with matted hair

The future of my land lies awash


A stale meeting of minds

Finds its fate in an untethered chain

Binding souls in unholy matrimony

Slaying the dragons of joy and love


Cries of help seldom heard

Give way to a plethora of excuses

No place where the mind is without fear or the head held high

Seeking shelter in a coward's refuge


These demons of my mind

thwart my light

choke my sound

kill me slowly and

eat away my soul


Escapism , Naivete

Tomfoolery, Kindness

Leisure kills and leisure soothes

These torrid passions of my placid mind-jail


A cursed existence or a tense life?

A pressed desire or a wild goose chase?

Many of life's questions and not a single answer!

Oh, what pity! Death is the only answer.