Unseen but ubiquitous,
Savage and surreal,
If not curated but contagious,
Annihilative and aerial,
Then lurking, now loose,
You are the silent stone sepulchre,
Tangling, tormenting; transient truce,
An asphyxiating, aggravating and apocalyptic aperture,
You might among countless thriving throng induce fear,
Cause bountiful bouts of darkness and despair,
You might perhaps possess lives of mankind in multitudes,
Cripple economies and ravage revenues.
Say, can you cease the blowing of wildly winds?
Say, can you banish a bridal blush or a child’s caprice?
Say, can you hold the hanker of a koel for its lilting lyrics, while it sings?
Say, can you shackle the Sun, or rob its rays with your bitter malice?
You are nothing but an atomic annihilator, a sombre spree,
In vain you strive to rule over our spirits free,
We would surmount all sufferings and decimate your derisive decree.
Saptarshi Mukherjee
Self-loathing and beating
A dark passage placed
Beneath the old ways
Where darkness dwells
Sadness runs rampant
And depression reigns
I visit this lonesome place
At times when I’m down
It pays to remember
This area of torment
When days I did bleed
And suffer profusely
I’m glad to be out of it
Living a better life
Bettering myself daily
Instead of destroying
Every piece of me
And tearing any ounce
Of joy that I might have
And tattering my mind
With a horrible disease
A deeper depression
That’s almost impossible
To regain hope from
But I got myself out
And I will never allow
Myself to get into this
Dying insane death
I will always be free
Of this annihilative obliteration
Of my terrible depression
Not allowing its power
To rule my life ever again
Russell Sivey
The wind stirs
Around the vortex
Of a hole in the Earth
Sucking everything to its center
Whirling around the hole created there
Seemingly in a never-ending swirl around
A striking display of awe inspiring grandeur
A power beyond our own meager imagination
Can there ever be peace within the turbulent destruction
Or are we left to face the terrors inside the annihilative winds
Russell Sivey