Have You Ever? Poem by Barnali Saha

Have you ever?




It's late, dark outside

The stars are up there in their nocturnal ride

You are soaked in your world of peaceful slumber

Yet, I sit here wide awake

Wondering what my life is morphing into?

A mundane tale, a lost war a forlorn island you have never been to

The insalubrious, crumbling, invalidating trepidation of losing this whole world

being blind, immobile, like immured in a dungeon,

Inebriated by a bountiful dump of nothingness

Have you ever felt like this?

You look at me and see a benign smile, twinkling eyes, lots of delight

The camouflaged heart of broken dreams, failed thoughts and weary streams

The atrophy of my frail soul, do they ever reach you?

People are born daily, the world impregnated everyday'

The billowy montage of trillions moving, rustling
Yet having nothing to say

The sheer dumbness of thought, that's what I fear a lot



No fatalist I am not-may be an agnostic.

Have you ever wondered why am I so lost?

You must have missed it baby, I will carry on this

Impostures act yet you will never realize

I will dance and sway to the lingering tunes of life that you might play.


But in the end, when in sleep you rest, I will dropp that

Swindling dress and dump myself again in that intimidating mess.

by
Barnali Saha
Nashville, TN.