TIME
TRAP
As a
droplet
Entrapped
within a sea-rock
I wait
for the wave
To
surge and break
To be
washed away
In the
vast expanse
A new
journey
I have
to undertake
Time is
waiting for me
Train
as yet to come
I am
leaving home
I am
leaving for my home
You
know I made mistakes
For
anywhere I stayed
I
mistook it as my homestead
I made
friends as if we were
Always
made for each other
I
shared with neighbours
As
if we were to be together
For
ever
Take
care of your luggage
Someone
whispers in my ears
They
are my friends, I discover
These
caring whispers
I
want to disdain
For
love causes loneliness
And
friendship cause pain.
So
I take my briefcase
More
firmly in my grip
As
if my definition
Only
it contains
Resting
on my hold-all
Lugubrious
and langurous
Falling
in reverie of past
I
lose my conscious.
Oh!
Times were roses
Fun
and laughter
Thorny
- bushes
I
came over.
Time
is a man-eater
I
count my scars.
Lurking
in the shadow of tomorrow
Time
is a shark.
So
I wish to go now alone
For
love causes loneliness
Friendship
causes pain.
Destiny
plays card-games
To
make journey happier
So
what if reaching at my destination
I
am a loser?
Suddenly
trains whistle I hear
I
can hear engine roar
Restless
train is approaching me
See,
time was waiting for me.
A
TRICK ONLY
Please,
play a trick with me
By
fair means or foul
Tickling
my hallucinatory brain
Stirring
my so-called soul.
Like
a mercury drop on a big plate
I
quiver with my mercurial mood
It
touches, it hurts, but never sticks
To
my being to my core
And
I keep on asking for
More,
more, a little bit life more.
Before
I am lost in melancholic melee
Of
chatting, sleeping and writing
And
of somnambulating in dead dreams.
Please,
play a trick with me.
Keep
away the restless bubble ballooning up,
For
as always it will burst into a void
Without
fomenting my unsatiated innerself,
For
as always I shall be looking for the bubble
And
for the scars and scratches on my interior.
Roaming
around in a nebulous twilight
I
am trapped between day and night
To
overcome this dead destiny
Please,
play a trick with me.
Poems
by Mr. Ramesh Kumar Choubey.
