Noise and Silence
Beneath my mind the demon danced,
He reaps away my brain
With awkward sounds and sights untrue
Not of the homely grain.
It's party dim tonight I think ,
But things are moving all,
I clearly see his evil spree,
While from the cliff I fall.
For long I fall, yet I reached not,
The lowly plain recedes,
Headlong I veer, it makes me steer
Down to a small crevice.
What will retrieve my dislodged frame?
Those whom I knew have left,
From somewhere sprang a sudden bang
Reminds me I'm bereft.
The clamour of a tavern reached
My ears, I stand upright,
What thing just screeched, I was bewitched
By that carousing sight.
I cannot hear the people speak,
The gestures block my eyes,
A humming sound does well redound
To tell the same, same lies.
I move my limbs, yet they refuse,
Who stole the old, old bliss?
Fixed and numb I stayed alone,
The voices went amiss.
Copyright © Sarban Bhattacharya | Year Posted 2021
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