ILLUSION

However hard I try to shake you off

During kicks and flicks from reality,

You’re always there nestling near

With your incomprehensible beauty,

Offering moments of opportunity

To stand and stare out of a big hollow

At least at a semblance of eternity.

When crushed under the anguish

Of dysfunction, inertia and inactivity

Your charms breathe a new life

Into each dry chink and sterile cavity,

With your ecstatic oozings permeating

 Into each cell and dale of this body

Giving fresh insights into possibility.

I can’t be harsh to reject you here

In this house where bullets make holes

In  my walls , borders are vulnerable

Nights , horrible and days, torn by conflicts

Between the done and the desirable.

Come sweet illusion ,

Cover me with your balmy body

Suck me into your soul’s silent thrills

Transport me into ever awaking new feels.

Comp. n copy right : saroj k. padhi

07/11/14