Restitution

Lost in my mind, I am swarmed by my thoughts,
Little floating beauties, filling up my senses,
The tornado of bubbles, all look like dots,
Melancholy and sadness, all I need are defenses,
Death and darkness taunt me, light joins them; a betrayal,
Hope abandons me, I am full with everything else,
The home is a house, the eternal threshold a portrayal,
The lowest of the low, the tangibility melts.

A spark flies, the glow of a smoldering match,
It lights up the dead leaves, at home inside me,
“Ah!” I spoke, “life reignited; without a scratch”,
The soul emboldened, the life filled with glee,
The craving for connection, reality has hatched,
I live on, having bequeathed myself to the elements,
Love and joy in the darkest corner, hate is just a patch,
It is all just tenacity, survival has no sentiments.

April 16, 2018

The Joke

All the books have an ending,
A happy one, like the movies,
But life, isn’t it a stage?
A tragic one, full of melancholy.

All endings aren’t happy,
The real life it is, face it.
It is cruel, unpredictable, faceless,
Full of bitter truth and sweet lies.

Then comes our death, an augury,
The roles complete, the curtains closed,
With inescapable jaws comes,
The unfamiliar bliss of nothingness.

What starts with a kick
And ends with a sigh,
Which makes the world laugh,
And, the joke, it is life.

Feb 02, 2018