NADIR

 

NADIR

 

Mesmerizing scenic lake blue water,

Sailing merrily singing think secure,

Drunken elixir of luxury plethora lit,

Boat of my life lake imaginary sight, (1)

 

Behold reality happening, automatic,

Hard effort aspiration hope ecstatic,

Thought money object of life ensures,

Gold is wine fame woman immature, (2)

 

Waylaid whirlpool drag underneath,

The dark bottom of a lake, scary beneath,

Though snake monsters exist in fear,

Reluctant to drop gold asset allure, (3)

 

Between horns of the dilemma, life,

It happened in my life terrify strife,

Tension worries risk endangering a lot,

Fight tooth and knell for gold effort, (4)

 

Licked people, feet for a penny loved,

The royal life, pompous work solved,

I rose and rose higher, unaware of a fact,

Fall is so sudden less alarm in fact, (5)

 

Popular, praise, bond, fade quickly,

Find today the bottom of the lake meekly,

Rich to rags hard encountered sad,

Life a destitute family left treated mad, (6)

 

Evening age creeping slowly, depresses,

The bottom of the lake image impresses,

Permanent darkness frigid exists,

Ghost of my spirit dream yet resist, (7)

 

Hope is the virtue I swim to the top,

Swim over the blue lake to save, luck,

Escape from the nadir to stability fit,

Abode of the Lord, heart wish merit, (viii)

 

Caught sight of lives amidst nature,

Rock bottom necessity lives enamor,

Serenity beauty freshness profusely,

Leads life bare minimum incredibly, (9)

 

The peace, happiness, and joy are scantly visible,

Lacks rich and famous nadir trouble,

I realized that day encountered a nadir,

The object of human life is not gold a fakir, (10)

 

Balanced life necessity for existence,

Nadir of my life warned consistency,

Found happiness and contentment, I believe,

For the rest of my life, ordinary survive. (11)  

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Nadir

Themes: Human needs a balanced life

Written: 13th March 2024 Cuttack

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NADIR

 

NADIR

 

When I got conscious about my heart,

Treasure trove dark chamber mine,

Never could know, exactly a moment,

It came, stayed for the rest of my life,

The path of life eloquent poem,

I drink the elixir of love to satiate my heart,

Rests for night darkness world disappear,

Ecstatic glow worms I visualize,

Watch astonishingly dream weaver,

Spider nest my desires etch nets radial,

Crisscrosses spider net, heart trapped,

Mind mushrooming lust around me,

Lusts till twilight years unfathomed,

Could not measure the depth of nadir,

It was nightlife span wide pitch dark,

Sweetest honey I was sucking,

Forgot the bright sunshine inviting,

Forgot noisy world attractive enticed,

Forgot wisdom nature is an eternal teacher,

Waiting for freshness, wind, water, skies,

Evaded pleas willfully, drunk heart,

Nadir, I discovered at youth paradise,

Touch of soft skin, thrills spread,

Aroma, body smells fragrant, artificial,

Visible for me, heart rosy with petals,

Wine, tasty cuisine, amorous plays,

Nadir canopied my life youth distant,

In late adulthood, I felt pain immensely,

Writhes fragile limbs, heart cries,

Outcry stunned me, was my heart,

The place was heaven for me, so long,

Heaven is the place of permanent joy,

How come; tortured-heart unwinds,

Spider net fades, a spider is dying,

The canopy of lust covered, life melting,

Acute pains, sick limbs, guess an end,

Now, only now, my sight at the past,

I listen to a whisper deep within,

O soul, you are escaping from nadir,

Dark dungeon that captures you,

Your chains are breaking automatic,

Soul metamorphoses into a butterfly,

The freedom will taste unlike desires,

Rose is a human life with petals,

Inner rows of petals create nadir,

Soul lives like a captive in the body,

Next rows of petals exhibit wisdom,

Elevated soul drinks, not honey, nectar,

Aware of the nadir that captures life,

Nadir, only human frame portrays,

Beauty skin deep magnetic attract,

Iron speck butterfly clings thronging,

Nadir O’ human, your frame is a prism,

You have seen a color spectrum only,

Realize, adhere to the second row of petals,

The freedom you have, O soul, move up,

The next row of petals gives happiness,

Unreal in this world, everything dies,

Surreal is happiness, eternal,

Your beautiful colored wings fade,

Still, you like time in nadir desperate,

Newborn, rose, you got a butterfly trapped.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra