TIME TRAP & A TRICK ONLY
MR. R.K. CHOUBEY
TIME TRAP
As a droplet
Entrapped within a sea-rock
I wait for the wave
To surge and break
To be washed away
In the vast expanse
A new journey
I have to undertake
Time is waiting for me
Train as yet to come
I am leaving home
I am leaving for my home
You know I made mistakes
For anywhere I stayed
I mistook it as my homestead
I made friends as if we were
Always made for each other
I shared with neighbours
As if we were to be together
For ever
Take care of your luggage
Someone whispers in my ears
They are my friends, I discover
These caring whispers
I want to disdain
For love causes loneliness
And friendship cause pain.
So I take my briefcase
More firmly in my grip
As if my definition
Only it contains
Resting on my hold-all
Lugubrious and langurous
Falling in reverie of past
I lose my conscious.
Oh! Times were roses
Fun and laughter
Thorny – bushes
I came over.
Time is a man-eater
I count my scars.
Lurking in the shadow of tomorrow
Time is a shark.
So I wish to go now alone
For love causes loneliness
Friendship causes pain.
Destiny plays card-games
To make journey happier
So what if reaching at my destination
I am a loser?
Suddenly trains whistle I hear
I can hear engine roar
Restless train is approaching me
See, time was waiting for me.
A TRICK ONLY
Please, play a trick with me
By fair means or foul
Tickling my hallucinatory brain
Stirring my so-called soul.
Like a mercury drop on a big plate
I quiver with my mercurial mood
It touches, it hurts, but never sticks
To my being to my core
And I keep on asking for
More, more, a little bit life more.
Before I am lost in melancholic melee
Of chatting, sleeping and writing
And of somnambulating in dead dreams.
Please, play a trick with me.
Keep away the restless bubble ballooning up,
For as always it will burst into a void
Without fomenting my unsatiated innerself,
For as always I shall be looking for the bubble
And for the scars and scratches on my interior.
Roaming around in a nebulous twilight
I am trapped between day and night
To overcome this dead destiny
Please, play a trick with me.
Poems by Mr. Ramesh Kumar Choubey.
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