Thursday, August 16, 2007

circa 2002

First Degree

A creature of my own making murdered me today
It took a sharp knife made entirely of regrets
And sunk it deep into the soft cushion of my soul
Twisting it till i screamed silently for mercy.

Silently, for if i had made a sound, any sound,
The cut might have bled all over my defenses
Darkening the colour of my dejection
To a shade reminiscent of death.

The creature was bright and happy once:
It bred cheer of a hopeful kind into what i loosely term my life
But which is more a random collection of souvenirs
From calendars and days when you were mine

And now, the creature, dismayed at its descent into a vile world
Where beaches littered with the flotsam and jetsam of sadness
Gave way to lagoons and inlets of fear,
Struggled, mutated, gave up on itself, and resorted to homicide.

5 comments:

Dan Husain said...

When the abstract becomes visual, the poem has sunk in. I could see the blood colouring your defenses. Magnificient. :-)

Thanks

ruch kuch said...

thank you..

Dan Husain said...

Between my comment and your thank you so much has happen that I had to revisit your poem. :-)

Dan Husain said...

Waise why nothing after 2007? I found that intriguing.

ruch kuch said...

more old poems- dug out from an old folder i found under a pile of dusty scripts.
nothing in this after 2007.
maybe the font has dried up?
who knows.
maybe i feel more now and express less?
perhaps.