Monday, July 16, 2012

Her anathema




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A troubled soul was she

striving hard to come to terms with
the murky times in which she existed
the vile and wicked ways of those around
disturbed her.
 
She sat motionless
like a zombie
Pale and cold
Like the contemplating, placid and brooding  
Obscurest bird of the darkest hour
-an owl
Or, like an irritated, blood thirsty
Ugliest, meanest and the sinister most
nocturnal creature of all
-a bat  
 
She thought she was becoming
less of a human,
bordering more on the savage side,
plagued by a distinct kind of cannibalism
that killed no human, but the very core
called humanity.
 
Was it the world that had trespassed  
all possible limits of sanity and rationality?
Or, was it her who was not the right fit
to the boggling puzzle called,
Ghor Kalyuga:The twenty first century modern world,
an era devoid of love and reason,
Sans brotherhood, sans harmony,
With a God nearly dead, and  
festering, decaying humanity
 
She felt out of place
A total misfit,
a maladjusted, mentally molested moron
in a mass of land
where mindless men crawled  
like hideous maggots.
 
For her,‘twas anachronism,
A phenomenon that  
took its  real shape in front of her
striking her hard right in the face
Breaking her teeth, making reality hard for her to
chew, swallow and gulp down her throat.
 
She sat there cold
under the light that refused to shine,
that quivered, flickered and fluttered,
teased her, it betrayed and vexed her.
She locked herself  
in a sado-masochistic room
the dampness on the roof and on the walls
the plaster that did crumple and fall
the room stripped itself bare
peeled its skin showing nude
the dark, hollow, damp marks, they were
green, black and brown, full of moss
and the crumbling pieces  
fell on her while she slept
waking her up, in a fit of oblivious torpor
the dampness of walls got stuck in her mind
the foul smell, dark and distinct like
burned soot or kohl in the dark brown Indian eyes.
 
The room haunted her, she couldn’t escape
being afraid to gaze out of her dusty window,
lest she should see some Gorgon, Moloch or Beelzebub
in a guise of a friendly human,  
peeping in through her window
ready to take away her soul and suck on her life, but
Why did the omnipotent and omnipresent darkness
 paranoid her then,
When the darkness of ignorance that lay within her  
swayed and whirled?
 
Unable to fathom any of these
She did what was best suited for her,
trying to uncover the glory of God
that had faded away in her heart
she begged for pardon, she atoned and repented
for the minor sins that she had committed
she wished for the doomsday
the Armageddon, when everything shall be dissolved
when those who sinned shall be damned
and the rest shall be absolved
then, in some divine awe she shut her eyes
calling out holy angels’ names, she cried
and asked for her only question to be answered,
 
“What kind of justice is it my God,
that only the naive, the poor and the innocent,
is destined to struggle, suffer and strive,
in this world so cruel and intense?
Losing out on sense and love,
there's nothing sane that your child can see,
Oh! take me in your bosom my Lord,
as this world being insane,
is at best, an anathema to me!!”

1 comment:

Unknown said...

aggravated, profound, allude!!

b'ful!!!