Sarban Bhattacharya Poet Ballad

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.

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Beata Agustin May 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.