A dialogue with my Shadow

Dr.Sudhansu Dash

The sweet emotion running in its veins

The salty breath has enough of sorrow before its death

Tasted by the time

Standing at the corner

All painless insult heaped upon him

Exiled from all dead and gone

To cry all the loneliness and pain.

No passion to escape the fearful shape of its own

From the cracks of the glass

From the ancient faces of the rain beaten stones

Before it is well finished.

Your life overflows without any ambitious pain

To choose whatever shape you desire

Flexible in its own merit of happiness

The empty sea-shell jumping out

From the inherited glory of the obscure dark sea

The arms and fingers spreading wide

Just to embrace nothing

Nothing but stillness can remain

When the heart is full of its own sweetness

You turn away and shut the doors

I wonder when I see

How many times you have my worthlessness.