BURNING DESIRE

 

BURNING DESIRE

 

 

Aghast, a state realize reality,

Semblance life event stability,

Collapsed, lost consciousness,

Correlation crept, let impress, (1)

 

Discovers hospital bed nurses,

Rows of patient sight if curses,

Who will survive till the dawn,

Who quit last night unknown, (2)

 

Self watch, my monitor screen,

Gentle curves assured stream,

Human life, mesmerizing value,

Fragile, human lives, loses clue, (3)

 

Sleeping on the bed, inert, alert,

Owner of a dozen houses effort,

Burning desire writhes dreamy,

Worked earned million steamy, (4)

 

Every conceivable design, flats,

Number of famous city impacts,

Ponder deeply, acquired home,

List of property, asset, worrisome, (5)

 

Why do I build homes? for whom,

Failed to answer reason come,

Burning desire, within me fire,

A bed is enough I build an empire, (6)

 

Thousands of square feet fight,

I worked and earned millions, right,

Realized now life is not perpetual,

Hundreds of flats won magical, (7)

 

Stolen my possession material,

Burning desires think satirical,

Not emotional realization cursed,

A second, curve to line immersed, (viii)

 

A few seconds after a declaration,

Preparations for the cremation,

What will happen to my property,

Nameplates redesigned thirsty, (9)

 

Just a name, age, address, stay,

Acquire property soon dismays,

The ghost of burning desire live,

Believe or disbelieve but deceive, (10)

 

Perfect machination steal dream,

Resilient to detachment extreme,

Fight for money territory assets,

I sleep on hospital bed dissects, (11)

 

The ghost piggy-backed my life,

Opposed to a forgotten cruel knife,

Smile at myself, mistakes to identify,

Burning desire, soul escape, defy, (12)

 

Merge with the earth, wind, water,

Perpetual, soul unite with nature,

Not in every breath, mingle, know,

Childhood to twilight years, show, (13)

 

Burning desire part of nature lit,

Divine wish, human lives defeat,

Consoled, comfortable, convinced,

Slept soundly God bless evinced, (14)

 

Burning desire, sojourn finished,

Forgot the creator, time vanished,

Vanished asset assertive strength,

Burnt desires illusive, at length. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Burning Desire

Themes: Material attachment

Written: 30th November 2023, Cuttack

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