UNMASKED...





I feel like unmasking

With my breath gasping

As no one stops by, to look at me again,

My heart bleeds, each drop dripping the pain

While the red quietly drizzles  

Splashing the grey, passing through the night in a dribble, 

Like the faltering breath it at times stops 

To mix with and inundate the waterdrops,

No one can see, nor feel the melancholy,

Softly taking over in all its glory,

The darkness gets the essence of pain rubbing off the injury, 

My love, my endearment, my devotion, all turning into my misery.


I sit with memories as the day began,

Memories which pass like those ever elusive clouds, playing hide and seek, in rain and sun,

This moment I seek some refuge in a soft piece of sky,

Square, peaceful, yet so full of light and without any traces of those cloudy memories that fly high,

Seeking bright golden stars,

Then this moment, walking through the red mud of Mars,

The red borrowed from within me

Peep from everywhere, surprised they see,

I seek the calmness of the full moon, pearly and mellow, calling out your name,

Just then, like before, out of the night, you came, 

The darkness then melted and took you like the jealous lover,

Confess, that I may not have been strong to win you over, 

And now I see through my tears, without hatred, joy, dreams, nor fear,

With just you, in my heart for years and years!!!


©®Madhumita