The Hollow Man

Dr Sudhansu Dash

I am exact, no pre occupation

I sallow things uncorrupt and chaste

Unprejudiced by love or dislike

I am the hollow man.

Neither cruel nor sympathetic

Only truthful to my being

With no motion or emotion
I wait till eternity

I think it a part of my heart

My flickering flame in darkness and light

Searches my reaches

That I can never find

In the terrible emptiness of my Being

Lying helpless at the abyss

But I reflect it faithfully

Every morning my face replaces the darkness

For another darkness

Hours I wait for another hour

That is my only excuse to live

To make all my pains a virtue.