ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

STRENGTH – A WEAPON OR A CHOICE

I allow strength to conquer me

As I have no other choice

Living is such,

Meant to see us submit to it

While inscribing upon actions’ list,

Our list of sins should we choose to escape it!

I allow strength to conquer me

By hiding my hurt stance

Behind a mask,

An image,

One displaying the array of a bubbling doll,

As such is what the rest of the world wishes to see!

Care they not to see how damaged are my wings

While I broke free

From the cage I was trapped in

Care they not see that I fly low

While my envious gaze fixes the other birds of my kind

Those having had not their wings broken

Those flying in the realms found up in those heights

I shall never ever get a whiff of!

Why, strength shall be my weapon

As long as my breath shall allow it to

After all, the happenings of Earth are meant not to matter

But when the skies have voiced out their wish

Wish which has to be fulfilled

In ways which are way above my head for me to handle

Pray,

Does strength really become my weapon

Or does it become a state of having no other choice?

LOVE’S CANVAS

Love’s origin has been painted in acrylic

By the hands deciding upon our fates!

Love’s meaning has been thundered to me

Once, when the blue skies seemed laden with doom!

Love’s new avenues have been whispered to me

While I was roaming in between the mystical spheres!

But Love seems to be unaware of its own course

Love seems doubtful, indifferent even

Love seems to enjoy playing there where the grass is green

And there where nymphs swim in lazy delights!

And I, without Love’s tenderness,

Remain a fractured porcelain doll

Broken in pieces which shall never be reassembled

But which gives the impressing of having been put into place

By the powers of the skies!

Love’s bed in my heart remains cold and empty

After all, I would sleep not there without Love

Shall I solely resort to drown myself

In those polluted seas of Earth’s havoc

Hoping, by doing such,

That I shall believe that I exist not

So that I may forget

That even if the skies made their wishes known to me

Love, chose to paint another canvas for itself!

HOME

I remain tied to the skies

As they are from where I fell

And they are there where I shall end up!

I remain tied to the skies

For the power they hold over me

By giving me little jolts at times

Which help me to understand life

And to love life!

Why, what is the sense of this world

When we know not what is waiting for us at the next step

Our plans do get foiled

Our expectations do materialize not

Our joys get snatched away

And our hopes, broken and shattered!

We only have to keep our hands folded at times

Yearning for mercy from the skies

Or we have to keep our palms open

Thereby telling the skies

That we shall forsake ourselves and our wants

Only to accept that which they shall thrust upon us!

Pray, however much the world tries to

It shall never end up in making me find my place here

My roots are up there,

In someplace where living is fair

I have already planted the seeds of those creepers though,

They shall grow and reach this forgotten abode

And I shall crawl upon them

To get back home!

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 three anthologies for the Immagine and Poesia group.  Her poems are often placed in free online contests.  She has been selected to be among the Most Influential Women in Mauritius for the 2017 category Arts and Culture and she has also been awarded as a Promising Indian for the year 2017 for the same category.