When Your Tongue Turned Wild

Like a whip-sword with a blade, it looked humble and curled.
I thought it's the softest pink sapphire in the world.
In your brawl with me, for causeless cause, when you swore
Endless embers of volcanoes gushed from your core.

Your pessimism, like toxin-puffed balloons, soared high
A pain from within me throbbed into a sigh
Scorn, like fire from fighting swords, from you blazed forth
Is there, deep within you, an inferno of wrath?

Did I, in the past, shun showing you my favour?
I, now, feel ashamed to have you as my neighbour.
I thought you're precious and preserved you as a pearl.
What tempest, I don't know, turned you a pool of whirl.

Though storms taunt time and again, do Banyan trees weep?
With your thorny, rude words, I feel awake from sleep.
No one can make rules for me to live with a snake.
What use is a neighbour who gives nothing but ache?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Mukherjee  Avatar
December 16, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Powerfully penned Christuraj! Having such a toxic neighbour is a menace, and I can feel your plight. Well deserved. Congratulations on your win.
Beaufort Avatar
November 29, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Christuraj, I'm reading this and wondering what caused the volcanic eruption? However, it is amazing that certain things can trigger and episode like this. Not pleasant when it happens and your poem shows the pain such an outburst can cause. I have experienced such as you say and empathize. Very hard to reason with raw lava flowing in your direction.
Anaya Avatar
November 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
"Your pessimism, like toxin-puffed balloons, soared high" I like this line, Christina. Congratulations on your win!
Alex Avatar
November 26, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Thank you very much. May God Bless You!
George Avatar
November 25, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Congratulations dear Chris on your well deserved win. It is such a menace to have a neighbor like him. "What use is a neighbour who gives nothing but ache?" Quite a relevant question. Powerfully penned.
Alex Avatar
November 25, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Thank you very much. May God Bless You!
Jones Avatar
November 25, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Christuraj your poem expresses with skill a challenging neighbor! Wow! Your pen is mighty in exposing this person and your plight! Congratulations on your placement in my contest! Thank you for entering!
Alex Avatar
November 25, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Thank you very much for giving me an opportunity. May God Bless You!
Read Avatar
November 21, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Hi Christuraj, have you met my next door neighbour lol.xx
Alex Avatar
November 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Thank you. May God Bless You!
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