A RIVER SPEAKS

I looked up and saw before me -

a vast, tumultuous, frothing sea.

Fear crept in me, alone was I -

Can't return however hard I may try.

I mustered courage, clumsy is my flow -

I came from the peaks, onward I must go.

Infancy, childhood all in my past -

Wide arms of the sea in view at last.

I know this as I in fear shiver -

That I no long will remain a river.

I say to myself, "This is all I know -

It's just my fright and I've to let it go."

I moved on, my steps leaving no trace -

In gurgling rage I found a mother's embrace.

I felt as I went for ever to the sea -

That I was a river and always will be.

Prasenjit©2022

IT WILL HAPPEN

You can cut all the flowers, but -

you cannot keep the spring away.

Clouds glide above tall towers, but -

you cannot keep the rains at bay.

The days in autumn are brief, but -

the night has its own plans too.

A tiring day gets its own relief, but -

next day it comes shining through.

We can hide despairs and pain, but -

our very eyes tell a different tale.

The sun may hide behind clouds, but -

the earth is a witness that rain fell.

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NYCTOPHILIA

As darkness falls, peace descends -

Nature to us thus tranquil sends.

Looking up, some clouds, few stars -

Like remnant tears and deep scars.

Daytime sun and a sun at night -

The moon imitates with all its might.

The crowd, the hustle and bustle -

A day flees with an aching muscle.

I look at those twinkling pearls,

as streaks of aurora slowly unfurls.

Handful of stars - food for my dream,

the moon shines with crescent beam.

Creatures of night roam in silence -

A feeble cat walking on a barbed fence.

It's three o'clock, clouds over moon loom,

as stars slowly fade into a dark gloom.

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AN IRONY

I hear a song outside my window -

It is a song of freedom though.

Boons don't work on me no more,

curses seem deep-rooted to the core.

I am immune to flashing charms,

yet aware of those twisting arms.

I see hidden tears behind a smile

and see the fake shrouded in guile.

Sadly, what the world came down to -

A wall built between me and you.

I strongly feel and surely know -

This wall can't stay, it has to go.

We hug and keep pets on our lap -

yet widening the generation's gap!

To our parents' tears we go blind -

yet we do read our pet's mind!

Prasenjit©2022

PAIN SAYS...

The one in pain asked 'pain',

why are you here to stay?

"I'm not here for any gain

you can relate - if I may?"

I am just here among all in guise,

for life's lessons we need to learn.

Let me tell, words of those wise,

so do not let your conscience burn.

I'm painted in a picture so grim -

of all emotions I'm most unkind.

I'm a nobody in no one's dream,

while I lurk in everyone's mind.

'Joy' fleeting across your face,

while you had all the time to look.

Humans - all in an unending rat race,

made no use of the time they took.

Prasenjit©2022