The Homecoming Poem by Gopikrishnan Nair

I'm the cry, stifled through practice,
The smothered suffocation.
I'm the epilogue,
taking my last steps.
Too fragile a path to walk anymore.
I want to scream, I want to lie down.
Its a dreamless sleep I crave for.

I'm the hallucinations, the memories that never existed.
Its a different world that lights up my closed eyes.
The eyes bore onto me from behind the walls,
I'm afraid.
I want to scream, I want to lie down.
Its a dreamless sleep I crave for.

I'm the darkness, The scary disguise of day,
The fading conscious, going home.
I'm the pen, furiously scratching,
I need to stop, my time runs out.
Hades, take me, embrace me, make love to me.
Let this horrendous darkness take me.