ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

 LIFE'S REAL SIDE

Mother Nature calls me, sings to me even

To shed off the negativity abounding in my whole being

To open my eyes

And to smile at her beauty!

But, life's looming dragon hovers over my sight

Blocking from my vision, nature's scenery

How can I forget that fire spitting dragon

Aiming solely to curse the human souls

With diseases, with poverty, with death,

With treachery, with evil intents,

With the imposition of living in a world

Where Uncertainty reigns

So sure about its own existence

So like a mighty and cruel king?

Pray, best it is to turn a blind eye to Mother Nature

Best it is to try to tame the dragon of life

So as to have its mood all soft and content

While hoping that it would throw glittery dust on me

Instead of its soul destroying fire!

DRIVEN

Feminine yearnings tug at my heart,

Wake up my soul and inflame my desires!

Feminine yearnings, triggered by the skies,

Prick through my skin and touch the very core of my bones

Like arrows sent from the guardians of Love!

Pray, feminine yearnings, make of me

A being so easily conquered, so easily duped

So easily trampled on and so easily broken!

Still, the guardians of Love, driven by the mechanisms of Life,

Pour upon my shelter seeking self,

More and more arrows

Bidding me to lose control of my whole self

Bidding me to wear on my face, the mask of broodiness

Bidding me to see my whole existence, as gloomy and dull!

Feminine yearnings have struck my whole essence

Am I to live with them

Hoping to end not on a boat in a raging sea

Nor on a hijacked plane

Nor stranded on a deserted island,

Having lost all means of survival

Having lost all hope of life

Having lost all reason to dream!

Why, feminine yearnings inhabit me

And I can help not but let these control me

Grabbing the tip of my nose, they lead the way

While, I, catching on their flair,

Walk forth,

Driven, compelled, unable to stand still!

Feminine yearnings

The very essence of my life!

IMPATIENCE

The clock ticks by so slowly

A languorous tic and tac-ing

Bidding me to sway my pulpy hips

According to its steady beats

While biting my lip nervously!

Pray, life, so like a travelling foreigner

Visiting my home country

Walks on its way in slow steps,

Stopping to admire the scenery now and again

While, I, a being made of mystery

Unable to adjust to life's pace

Can help it not;

Impatience drives me

Impatience to see where life will take me

Impatience to know, what next!

But I can help it not

Life and its stakeholders, take their sweet time

And I,

Can only close my eyes

Let the clock's beats fill me up

And sway my hips

As life gradually walks on!

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, WISH Press, Tuck’s Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, among others.  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