YOUR GIGGLE HURTS

Don’t know why, but your giggle hurts this night

Interrupting my progress up to my desired goal,

As I try to impress the moon beaming in her cellar

Who occasionally drops looks at my fragile body

That pathetically hides patches all over the soul ;

Your giggle accentuates into a loud warble of the night

As birds too join you, caricaturing my empty notion of love

That tried to capture real bliss in the net of hollow desires!

And plumb ecstasy in the puddle of sheer mud and mires!

It was no mistake on your part to giggle like that dear

It was perhaps my response to my own neurotic self ,

In the absence of that deep, suave and   luminous cheer ,

Which chills my foolish mind with so much anxiety and fear !

Comp. n copy right :saroj k. padhi

12/12/14