Sunday, 16 November 2014

Image of a Broken Mask





Dr. Sudhansu Dash


The dismembered pages of my life
 Scattered here and there
Between two fires at both the  ends 
My two palms filled with some justifications
Turned to a handful of ashes.
The mask breaks into thousands of pieces
Despite all attempts to consolidate them
 With all crumbling senses of security.
Standing on a piece of earth
That dissolves every moment
Into an indefinite nothingness.
I consolidate them under the veil of all eyes
Painting the virgin promises of hypocrisy,
Breaks into pieces along with it.
Who has created such a ‘me’
Standing alone along
 With all untrusted  sympathetic  intimacy.
The buried down lustful bones of my mortal frame looks at itself
With two doubtful eyes
Whether the grass would grow on it
Under the garments of a priest
 Burdened with the black secrets of the soul.

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