OUTCRY

Soul cries
useless is your existence,
how long tears will fall from the dark night ?
Dream horrifies,
thoughts take rest under the breath of pills,
wait for the morning, and the wait for the tears to get dried
end successfully with rising sun .
Luminary brings hope of a new night
and make live thousands old memories
to be submerged in melancholy.

A night full of old fragrance
some where lost in backyard years.
Slices of the mortal body
stacked in different racks
is left for you to rearrange,
and bless it with a life.

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Published in the Newspaper The Asian Age (16thMay’1999), India