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A communist would sympathize equality in the deepest trenches of humanity in terms of power and pelf in exchange for the degrading quality of her true self
By Biken K Dawadi

I fathom fiercely

what fruits

have the denial borne.

I sink in solitude

bewildered by truths

of the scorns.

I silence my pangs

with cataracts

of existential dilemmas.

Wistful as it is,

my desperate acts

are fleeting drips of melting soul, dying

a million times

in the parting.

My heart rings like-

Like the empty vessel of life

that marks

the solemn starting

of an armed battle

betwixt the two entities.


Compadre!

I am the final dream

of a decaying man,

the wilted decadent.


A spartan,

would favor stroke

the mild blue sky

with drips of crimson.

But still, late in the darkness,

he would glare at the stars

and feel something amiss.


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A Harappan

would rather favor lasting peace

Bloodshed? Avoid!

But over that

pertaining bliss,

her spirit would feel the torments

Of a throbbing void,

living.


A capitalist

would favor the slimy clink

of yellow metal,

or the demonic bewitchment

of diamonds

and sapphires

over innocent screams

of hundreds and thousands

that are laid to pyres

of his greed.

But on his final adieu,

in his ultimate dream

as a fading man,

darkness will drizzle

over every corner,

Silence will gulp his meaning,

and unfettered longing for love

and redemption

from all that he caused.

He sheds

a catastrophic culmination

of his life

in tears.


What good is happiness

when ‘tis a shallow pause

on the curtainfall of regret?


A communist

would sympathize equality

in the deepest trenches

of humanity

in terms of power and pelf

in exchange for

the degrading quality

of her true self.

What would be

left of the minuscule

shard of mankind

if the beating heart is not owned

by individual will?

Let me remind,

we are three-quarters of what we feel.


A fascist

would pride bigotry

above all.

History has proven,

a leaf that quarrels a tree

ultimately falls.


A realist

would ponder only

about what materializes

in front of her barren eyes

of perception.

She would forget to hold hope,

forget to dream.

Speak out solemnly

until she realizes

that what she believed

was a boulder

of lies.

What remains

are the emotions soldered

in the eyes.


A dreamer

would delve too deep

in the eight corners

of his realm of vain.

What would he gain,

but utter disdain

from reality?

Every morn, every night,

in bright darkness

and pitch-black light,

he will keep on treading,

climbing,

the hills of his realm

until one day

he will summit the peak,

resolve too weak,

reality too bleak,

he will step off that cliff

Perhaps too steep

To emerge alive again.


Life is a flicker

of the eye.

Perhaps, sicker

than the vilest of lies.

What passes by

could emerge again,

in other symphonies lain

by the orchestrator.

We believe in

what we choose to believe in.

We are what we make of ourselves.

Our over-thoughts are a cluster

of feelings, we could not muster

into expression.

Realize, do not regret,

Let the memories swarm in,

Do not forget

all of life’s offering

In shapes of happiness and suffering.

From every joy and every scorn,

From every moment, let us learn

The darkest of nights

brings out the brightest of dawn.

Let's swing in and out

of the stages of our life.

And fade away, indestructible.

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