The Sparrow

Dr Sudhansu Dash

Not afraid of falling from the above

Nor below the above

But afraid of a untrusted insider in myself

This prison I have made

With the straws of my believes and disbeliefs

I have constructed it myself with all my cares

Nights after nights I have caged my innocent life

With my intimate enimical consolation

The life cries but some trusted tears

My darkness has swallowed them all with some false promises

With a word of another illuminating darkness

You may deceive anything

But not to my return to you

Before every sunset to my misfortune

With my uncomplained suffering

This is the only excuse

I am pulled again and again

To the inside of the earth

With the force of a never ending trust

For an unending curse.