Abhimanyu Raman

Do you wait,
to contemplate
upon the puddle
Before you jump,
...

I am the remnant
Of wars fought and lost
For reasons, that I know not
I remain, the others have perished
...

Sleep well, oh! Mother,
Thou hast won thyself, a ghastly prison
Even as life blooms all around thee,
As the good earth nourishes, all that is hers
...

I walk upon his grave,
again...
The epitaph reads
'The man who would not submit,
...

The night owl sings to me,
a song of peace...
Verses of forgotten bards,
come to me, in unforgotten dreams
...

You have won my friend
The glory you so wanted, is now yours
My defeat was your need
My destruction, your necessity
...

We are strangers
The bond of blood survives,
Yet I know him not
Owner to that disembodied voice
...

Come now, hold fast!
For I do not think we will last,
this storm
It seems the form,
...

I travel in darkness
Not knowing the destination
Time and space are relative, they say
But for me, all is constant
...

My love
I cannot see,
how you seep into me
Your light
...

Strangers,
living in strange houses
Invite me,
for a cup of tea
...

Once I was afraid,
to speak aloud,
my beloved's name
Now i know not why,
...

A few minutes away,
from dawn's hour,
I meditate
My cellphone, still
...

God one day,
in a careless moment of contemplation
asked me
'Am i lost in your abyss, child?
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Everyday,
I tore away,
a piece of wind,
from my shoulder blade
...

Your lot
may call me,
Hell's Child
...

My arrows travel deep into the night,
piercing frescoes of thought at dawn
Travel further, they shall, these shattered shards,
to intone lethargic delirium at midday
...

A million I's, live and die
in me, this moment
Each seeking,
the path to one another
...

The Only World
A Place,
Where we are free
Where every measure of breath,
...

I look down at my hands stained with blood
I killed my soul, i set it free
A soul which was once trapped within me
A murderer I was, I had killed my soul without cause.
...