Shattered Hopes Poem by Ratneswar Brahmachari

Shattered are the hopes,
Humiliations are but what they gift,
Laughters are always with concealed tears;
None can laugh as me in Dark, Stormy, and Endless Night.

Nobody, I dare say, can laugh louder than me with
Sounds of roaring, turbulent broken heart.

Yet, peace and tranquility haunt me now, often,
Too few, very few in number they are.


Scriptures of Ethics and Morality -
Though gone through, accurately memorized
Also but only to be quoted for arguments’ sake.
Guided and compelled to shield
Ego-the enemy, friend or foe.

Puzzled and perplexedly poised.
Opines of Great Minds, perhaps are
Losing their impact unlike before.


Are they on the verge of expiry?
Or impotent in modern era?

Faith deceives and taking the shape of Mirrage!

Tried most, yet alluring and seems
Getting appeared as baseless notion of
Some foolish persons
With no reality!