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Bouncing Back Self-Controlled
In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning,
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me.
The dulcet dawn splashed the spectrum of ecstasy,
blossomed the buds of my euphoric dreams
in the seamless domain of depthless desire.
I didn’t see the sandstorm slither in the slate horizon.
Travelling forlorn in the desert of a desolate life
in the maze of your deceptive dunes I wandered enticed.
I was seduced by your face behind the mask,
my morose heart turned into wreckage in your swathe.
I didn’t know where I was meant to be and to belong,
but tried to find a place in the oasis of your luring love.
I ended up becoming a dense dust in the wasteland
that blew away to the obscurity in the desert storm.
Under the scorching sun burning the façade of desire,
as I drifted desiccated across the dunes of deprivation
with the shifting sands of time designing myriad illusions,
I saw my destruction in the mirage flashing in your eyes.
Emotion engulfed by the raging sense of consternation
bewildered me by the confusing options of flight or endurance.
I submerged immobile within the state of stasis,
while the denial response shriveled my shattered essence.
As the sunshine days of delight ran out fast for me,
the twilight sky fell with the dismal night,
I didn’t forget that the cold sun sinks to ascend again,
inspiring the Phoenix in me to rise from the debris.
Through the billowing smoke thick and blinding,
I came out of the ruins, and saw the beauty life was.
Before the bruised conscience overwhelmed my broken soul,
I found the inner strength to bounce back self-controlled.
Copyright ©
Subimal Sinha-Roy
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