The Rusted Treasure Chest
The wind is all I've got now
Careless glimpses without heed
Burrow deep into the crowds
Like staggering footsteps
On the lonely coasts,
That had never been treaded on before..
Waves like strangers
Wash them away,
And so I wonder, why? where?
The safest place for my soul,
By the furious ocean,
Horizon sings to me:
'The Song of Ecstasy!'
Peeping, glittering from beyond;
I sit on the rocks,
That are stronger than the single mother
Who had lost her child
One rainy night:
They have been caressed
By the first drops of rain
That ever fell on Mother Earth
And as Time raped Her,
The waves of Her tears
Battered their silence to patience.
A squash of the coldness
At my barefeet
Dwindling like a dead serpent
Deceived from poison,
Serves an unusual joy..
Blood and life have been drained
And all Im left with is
A wrap of flesh, over a skeleton
Turning to dust.
A treasure-chest nursing my secrets
Mauled from the core of my happiness;
Rusts under the sun.
The encounter with the wind,
Like an oscillating rush
Completes my hollowness.
As I weep silently
The ocean wants my tears;
She promises to grow up with it,
I smile.
The day had come to an end
And so have I,
I rise above the horizon
Along the sun setting into it,
The gleaming rays burn my peels off
Bare and hurt
I choose to fall,
Freely into the furious waves
Only to grow up with the ocean
Into nothingness.
Copyright © Iman Roy | Year Posted 2011
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