Beautiful Sadness
‘Madness kills Insanity’
Melancholy daggers had struck him down again
Compressed a fragile state of festering fragments
Left behind on slow incisions ready for the kill
A crazy old man on death row of split darkness
Stripped to the core on peripheries of bedlam
Sadness wrapped in a straight-jacket of inactivity
A shackled mind waiting for post mortem revelations
One more confrontation with ultimate oblivion
Void and temptation a distant memory of the future
On the stretcher of trivial agony he had forgotten
How Phoenix had risen from sack cloth and soot
Had blown ashes to the wind of change and beauty
They had to pin him onto bedsores and purulence
Injected psychotropic poison for his mind to heal
Convulsed him and surprisingly the catatonia lifted
He woke up in a trance of muddled inspiration
Wrote convoluted messages to Self and freedom
Reflected on what caused his pain and dire thoughts
Wiped off the bloody blade and penned a short obituary
Opted for a different course and retreat from pandemonium
Bid farewell to lunacy and retrieved light and reason
His curse resembled the double-edged sword of passion
Swinging from a short-lived pivot on the hook of treason
And yet he would not want to miss his spell-bound destiny
Depression gave him insight and bleeding resurrection
Ignited him once more and made him realise that of dose
Of enforced insanity was necessary to cure the madness
17th July 2019
Writing Challenge 2, July 2019- Melancholy- Poetry Contest
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