Thursday 6 October 2011

Faltered Walk...

The silver dark rain
Unleashes the drama of unrehearsed speech…


He lies in a corner,
Drenched in unending rain
Of words that he tries to shield
Of a friend,
A foe,
A stranger…


Their eyes pierce through him
Like bullets through naked skin…


He tries to flee
Yet stumbles with blurred eyes, unable to see…


Fear that consumes 
His brawny stand…
No friend,
No foe,
No stranger
Hath told he…


He wriggles even in the bright sun,
Its blaze burning the weak heart…


His self-induced leprosy
Of deluded darkness…


He tries to fit in
With a friend,
A foe,
A stranger…


But his soul lies
Buried in the coffin of the cold graveyard of silence…
His mask wears off through the day,
His sleep, a nightmare
Bowed down by his iron wrought heart…


The morning would only
Wake with chained legs 
To everyday monotony…


He colors his mask
With gold, diamond and silver…
That only gleam to invite eyes
Of a friend,
A foe,
A stranger…


His naked heels hurt,
With every walk on roughened pebbles of earth,
Like invisible scattered uncut glasses…


But his shoulders never tired
As he compared against
A friend,
A foe,
A stranger…


His sandcastle of lust, greed and pleasure,
Glistened till it lasted,
Till the tide of life
Swept past the man-made idiosyncrasies…


His soul was long drowned 
Into the inconceivable ocean bed of dust…


It was only when he lay,
On the death bed of mortality,
No friend,
No foe,
No stranger came…


And gazing out of the pale window,
In the last moments he saw…


A little girl play
With flowers that smiled to daylight,
Her laughter that swayed with soft wind…
He saw what he had lost…


His dead soul afar,
In her curious gleaming eyes
That embraced every song that nature sung… 


Every breath was her own,
And of no friend 
Or foe
Or stranger…


Her free spirit glided through the open blue sky,
Collected raw pebbles of earth as if her own…
Danced in the rain
That stole her fear away…


Her bold determined strides
Across the green carpet of earth
Made him realize what he’d missed…


He’d missed living...

And with a faint smile and lightened heart,
He slept to reunite
With a soul long gone…