Life Is Not An Object
A thing possessed wriggling in sordid clutches of desire
is no longer an object inert and inanimate,
a life unsuspecting and falsely secured
the hot desire melts insanely,
flows like bleached blood in the shrunk veins
and drowns the shattered heart.
The numbed senses crushed and thrown in the wind
can’t return home for the home is plundered.
A body pillaged by vile instinct of desire
is no longer a body animate but turns a debris
for a pried object poached defenseless
crumbles disgraced, the shamed soul sinks.
The object called life cared and adored
the heart safeguards to display with pride.
The life turned an object used and ravaged
the heart rejects to save the soul shamed.
If time doesn’t lift the spirit of dignity out of the ruins
and the power of self-preservation can’t heal
the wounds of the bruised psyche
the courage to face the world would make
the object of shadow a human of substance again
and life would rise from the dust reborn.
December 8, 2017.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2017
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