Thursday, 3 February 2022

The world's in short of vacuum cleaners

 The world's in short of vacuum cleaners,

to clean the mess

that we created,

in futile hopes of salvation

forgetting that our lives are intertwining stories,

in which at certain unpredictable moments 

backstabbing backfires

drenching the earth with multi coloured blood,

no thicker than another

equally fluid and blendable-

the bloodstains on rewashable white,

long lasting 

and noticeable. 



Shades of White

 Earlier it was

the blind leading the partially blind,

white sticks- so luminously white 

visible even in the cold, thick mist

(un)aware 

of the filtered truths,

passed from deaf to the partially deaf-

Now ring in the vacant air

thought bubbles

floating everywhere.

 

White and many shades of white,

what a paradise to live in!

The inhabitants so white in thoughts

How do i dare call it an abyss? 

It's me

 It's me.

Homesick for a mystic landscape 

gray clouds and a refreshing wind

trapped inside this fragile screen,

Wondering if

I looked at it long enough,

Would it take me there

by some invisible power

right at this moment

before this feeling vanishes. 



 

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