PRASANNA KUMARI

PRASANNA KUMARI

THE THIRD TRUTH

I lie awake

trying to paint the third truth

which defines life

with drunken words dancing on

my muse of hues and views

with nature's melody throbbing inside

with the sun I swallowed

and the moon I drank

I lie awake

trying to paint the third truth on a larger canvas

with staggering vowels and consonants

with syllables fluttering to shape the language of love,

dreams,thoughts ,reality and illusion

I lie awake

straining to form words of light and dark colors

translating moments of sight and insight

I lie awake

struggling to evolve the third truth

which defines and redefines life

and

listening to the crumbling of shadows

when light fades into foolish lies

AWAKE

As darkness falls

the darkness of a thousand nights descends on me

I lie awake

carrying the ocean of screams

of the mothers of Gaza

I lie awake

listening to the breaking sound of my desire

among the atrocities of Sudan

I lie awake

carrying the weight of girls faded in the ocean

crumbling the melody of my dreams

I lie awake

listening to the skies trying to exhale the whimper

of raped girls even the gods ignored

I lie awake

looking at the sky drawing caricature of girls

shattered to the bottom of their dignity

I lie awake

seeing the clouds painting the ill-treated women in pale grey color

(I lie awake

listening to the breaking sound of words in my mind into rainbow colors)

PRASANNA KUMARI