Date: 30.11.2008
Time: 9:40 p.m.
Wrap my heart in velvet and hold it in your palm
I feel like weeping today.
Do not stop me, or mock me or ask me what is wrong
For I am not capable of answers tonight
All I know is that blackness shall sleep
The blackness shall sleep
The blackness shall sleep with me
As I switch off the lights.
Could this impulse be compared to passions that I’ve felt?
No, I feel nothing in this flight.
My brittle truth of fragile stances
And the bitterness of my breath
Misty upon translucent glass
Cannot spell out the trapped feeling
In spite of moving fingers
Instead, I’ll sleep this night.
Calm yourself, pray, for I cannot help you today
While my senses are still dizzy.
So keep my heart with you for now
It fails in sustaining me while it is chained
Leaving life congested in my veins
But, the blackness must sleep
The blackness must sleep with me
As I walk away from light.
Come with it at a later date
When I am ready to beat again
To the rhythm of a steady flow of life,
Ebb and flow with my stream of thoughts
And still retrieve myself from furrows
I shall fly with you then, but now
The blackness must sleep, the blackness shall sleep
The blackness will weep tonight.
9:55 p.m.
6 comments:
There's so much beauty in this poem,in the blackness and in the flight.
I like.
Very much.
:)
Dark and stark. Wonderful.
there's so much elegance in ur writing. the first stanza itself says so much...loved it. :-)
i agree with harshad. this one oozes elegance. feels more like a song than a poem.
:D
Because I know the truth behind this piece, I shall remain silent about it.
Very strong and poignant. Nice job. U are a good poet. really good. like your blog. am ading it to mine. :) keep writing....
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