Skip to main content

What's in Vengeance?


You mocked my credentials.
You nurtured your potentials
At the worldly art of satire.
 You hit me so hard-
The ground under my feet
Gave way to a shame so deep.
I stood silent
With a burning feeling
Deep within my heart.
I wanted to give it back
With a thud and a smack.
But the charm of the fight,
The lure of the sunlight
Adding a bright hue
To the blood in your face
Won’t excite me any more.
You did what you were to do.
You hurt me, defamed me
Crushed my ego
Under your villainous heels.
Maybe that’s what your role was
Maybe that’s what you were sent for-
To purge the I out of me
So that I can search for the sunlight
Running wild and free. 

Comments

  1. :) Loved this. Whatever happens happens for a reason.
    People Come, People Go. They teach us valuable lessons in the crude classroom of Life. They leave as stealthily as they come..
    Love them, or Hate them. Believe that it all happened for a Reason. A cause. Or the effect behind the cause..?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WHICH WAY OUT?

Here I see a sinking ship. Only me in it… Slowly the water Reaches my feet… I can’t swim. I can’t think. The brain is numb, The feet are frozen. The hands don’t move, The tongue is parched. What’s the point? Why even try? Let’s sit here. Let’s go down… The eyes soak in The lovely blue Of the sky and the sea- A blue that seems so new. What’s there in life? Never saw this blue When I lived… Did I live? Did I love? Was I loved? Who will cry? And for how long? Doesn’t matter now… I don’t care… Let’s wait and watch… Let’s be one with the blue… Here I sink… Or do I rise? I embrace the blue. But I don’t feel wet anymore. Sea or sky? Where am I? Am I free? “Never” cried a voice. And I touched the old soil Of love, hatred and recoil… Even death played a trick I feel so sick… A betrayed little dog Back on earth to slog…

THE FIRE-FLY

So late into the night, A pale yellow light, The room is all so gloomy. The sorry wreck of myself Perched on the chair, Hitting some notes On the faithful old guitar. The fingers find their way To the chords that may Drive in some fun. But the melancholy minors Are always there to  stay. Oh! A fire-fly! What a delight! Full of it’s happy light… Near the corner of the room It sits down to rest, Spreading its light all along.  I partake of the happiness And the guitar responds With such vigour and joy That the gloom of the room Seems like misty history. The fire-fly starts feeling restless. So much of joy… So hard to contain… Its job is done. It has made me feel so good. Now it can leave And spread the mood around. It takes off, hovers in the air, Goes higher, takes a swing… And oh!!The cruel blade- The return-gift from humanity… It drops down on the table, Its light slowly fading out… I keep ...

OVERLOADED OVERHEAD

An ethereal corporeal footstep Added to the multitude of thumps A monumental mechanical drift Diffused through a temperate corporate pump. Oft in a room full of caffinated keyboards Tapped with the same resonant feel One of the normalised overheads Fails to respond to the drill. As the glass lets in the sunshine It does well to keep out the rain But what would the good glass keep out If the room becomes a marshy terrain? Yet after a moment of murky silence The nervous fingers get back to tapping again. Aritra Chakrabarti, 8.45AM, 15 th July, 2017.