WASHOUT

 WASHOUT

 

Right fellows, I feared for life,

Myopia crawling in my nerves,

The feeling when it is dark, sickening,

Start trembling at my shadows,

At the sight of a spider shrieking,

A widening net at the corner of a wall,

Unexplained hunting effects,

As if someone is planning my death,

Closed windows come evening,

Unexpected vent lurking there,

Outside my house, wait patiently,

Watch me alert for movements,

Felt one following me,

Stopped walking on the road,

Shopping malls lighted noisy,

Spreading beautiful music,

Ecstatic old film songs, enjoyable,

Sensed my heart, hunting melody,

Shivered on the open ground, paralyzed,

Music I felt only for me, a message,

Dissected meanings of the film song,

Apparently felt words reading me,

How come they played a song?

The way I feel these days in fear,

Fearing now people crowded place,

Who knows, killers are waiting,

The story is not fiction the truth,

Thousand innocent humans feel,

Feel exactly like this never says,

Ask inquisitively, goes a face pale,

Acts like unaware, least affected,

Fear the media, political leaders,

Worried about children, innocent,

Fear kidnapping family members,

Anticipate finding dead bodies,

In most undesirable places  laying,

Every call in mobile shrinking,

Sense Halloween ghost calls,

A nameless, faceless voice disturbs,

Fails to trap number anonymous,

Pay fortune details demarcated,

Informing police, disaster waiting,

How many corporate leaders got,

Film personalities, business people,

How many young girls of repute,

Get a threatening call with impunity,

Sterile arms of law police clueless,

The underworld thrives, growing,

Multi-headed hydra hot news,

Growing up at another place or time,

Maybe a male or female voice,

Threat decent people with pictures,

Honey-trapped men victimized,

Silently bleeding, fear a revelation,

Fear for self-image, status, family,

Evil grows at an unthinkable locality,

Posh locality suave personality exists,

Car, bungalows, business unknown,

A crowd enters villas in late hours,

Hardly local people know them,

Shadowy perused invite dander,

Stops telling our civil society,

Urban life, rich and famous, respected,

Protected, move freely, speak,

Listen to voice obeyed in respect,

Watched this picture silently, willfully,

Safe and secured, looked away,

Saving myself the wisest decision.

Halt, hello, educated, intelligent one,

Society found wolves hunting,

Catching evil life cut short guise,

Exposed before media by dawn,

Alacrity news spread length-breadth,

Collapses evil empire suddenly,

Fled the country or imprisoned,

The head of the hydra sees washout.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra