STRANGLED

 

STRANGLED

 

Confide openly, secrets hunting,

Sin tells conscience heart admits,

Rejects mind but tags blunder,

Argument learn to get experience,

Pious, ever heart human observed,

Inkling lust trickles desire acute,

Human life challenging why fear,

Known life perishes, curiously a fact,

That born here must die in time,

Life struggles, meet from the start,

Disease, abnormality, hunger links,

Feed till the last rest often needed,

Sleep at night must contemplate,

Half of life sleeps plunder forcefully,

Death is predatory, hideous, cruel net,

Accident curse of life, less announce,

Takes away sight, hearing, limbs,

Cause vegetative stage, non-functional,

Looked at mirrors, image less reflects,

Death accidents happen so suddenly,

How much human life be watchful,

Ever conscience speaks, no silent,

Mind captures heart to watch and hear,

Short life, O’ human, enjoy till the end,

Everybody will die someday, think,

You, be a traveler, discover the world,

Eat and drink taste elixirs of life,

Reject firmly, lust is a poison potion,

Born find limbs perfect achieve a goal,

The soul demands freedom to choose,

Where conscience pricks debar,

Constantly goading to inhibit life,

Teenage, adulthood till age-fighting,

Ruthless was a bitter fight within,

Invisible break applies forcefully,

Paralyzes mind frigid fatal fears,

Projects nightmares, dreams cast,

Sweating gets awake at night,

Find life fights in the dreary desert,

Thirsty, dying for a drop of water,

Drop is the hunger for wealth,

Yes, wants heart for money plenty,

Knocks every corner, at doors, a pity,

Impatient, failure causes desperate,

Depression is Death Valley, morass,

Impregnable fortress dark room,

Ghost imaginary vicious appears,

Ghost is self worries, tension, fear,

Hears weird sounds of beasts,

Dead of the night on a soft cushion bed,

Sweating profusely lighted room,

No one is there to threaten fellow,

Fully awake, sleep won’t touch,

Pills fail together, sunken eyes,

Feel rotten smells around, shaken,

No bad smell, bedroom fresh,

Darkroom of a fortress, only bedroom,

Maddening effects between feeling,

Belief, disbelief, plays mind dirty tricks,

Conscience under a canopy of lust,

Watching knows everything silent,

Knows very well consequence nearer,

Failed spirit now to get strangled,

Strangled once not to see, hear,

Strangled once not speak, taste,

Strangled to drink the wine of touch,

Mind brutally captured soul, a captive,

The soul was no more strangled,

A white dove fled beyond to freedom.  

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra