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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!!”
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1 comment:
aggravated, profound, allude!!
b'ful!!!
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