ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

LOVE SCARES ME

Love scares me

To the extent of having me

Shy away from it

Pray, love

With its transitions

And many hues

Can elevate

As it can destroy!

Why, love, have I always said,

Is a mere game of life

Life, being so like a cruel Goddess

Uses it as her weapon

To keep on being

Through love

We do duplicate

And maintain life alive!

Why, since now, have I been sitting

And staring at nothing

In a far away cave

There where fairies dance

And beasts roam, wild and free

There where flowers wilt not

And river waters sing in a tap-tap tone

There where none has ever set foot

There where I felt,

Always so safe and protected!

But,

Being a Goddess

Life remains skillful in her art

Pray, I feel,

Approaching me, at steady pace

Love, armed with its loads of

Upheavals!

Why, with life shall I wage this battle

Regardless of what shall be its outcome!

SHED OFF THE SHADOW

I looked at my reflection

One clear night

In a pond filled with still water

And saw, staring back at me

My shadow!

She was like me

Yet, unlike me

She was so free

So uncaring

So joyful

So evil!

You can be me, she whispered

Life belongs to naught

You shall live only

As long as Death will let your candle burn

So pray

Be not so jammed on social norms

Be mindless of the ethics

Rather,

Be you

Be you the way you want to

Be me

Be like me

And make sure the rest of the world

Accepts you as such!

On that clear night

I looked at my reflection

Staring back at me with an evil grin

And chose

To shed off my armour

Why, she was right

Why should I wear the clothes of another?

Better it is to be naked

And genuine

Why, on that clear night

I shed off my false shadow

And impregnated myself

With the right one!

ENVIES AND DUTIES

The mountain hovered above me

Majestic

And proud!

While I,

Stood at its foot

Feeling as tiny as an ant

Feeling as insignificant as a particle of dust

Why,

I have walked miles and miles

I have crossed seas and rivers

I have battled with life

Only to be able to approach this mountain

So as to climb it

And reach the other side!

Why, now that it was there,

In front of me

I should not be one to cower

Rather, I would be brave

And start my climb

For, the other side

Have I been apprised of

Is where life is fair and free!

Pray, I took on a deep breath

And placed my hands on the cliff

When

Oh sheer wonder

A white cloud appeared next to me

And allowed an old ailing man

To sit on it

To be able to cross the borders!

I gaped open mouthed

While the old man laughed at me

Pray,

He shouted, even if he was so frail

Everything comes at its set time!

Go back

Go back to your duties

With your cloud you shall meet too!

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON is a Primary School Educator in Mauritius.  She writes poetry and short stories as hobby.  She considers writing to be the meaning of her life as she has always been influenced by all the great writers and wishes to be, like them, immortalized in her words.  Her works can be read on poetrysoup.com and she had also appeared in various literary magazines like SETU, Different Truths, Dissident Voice, In Between Hangovers Press.  She has also been published in Duane’s Poetree and also in two anthologies for the Immagine and Poesia group.  Her poems are often placed in free online contests.