The Night Before The Dawn Poem by lalitha iyer

it was very bleak
the night before
the air was cold
and damp
no leaf stirred
no life aired
any living urge

thoughts scattered
emotions battered
the bride awaited
for dawn to break

passions weighed
profusions stayed
dreams were escaping
energy sweeping

no song to cheer up
no bird to sound up
no hand to hold on
no band too cold it was

the bride sat upon
the barren rock of life
with breastfull of oceans
full of tidal confusions

it was the night of darkness
night before final surrender
either life will be wedded
or the body shredded

it was stillness
killing the raging blindness
blind was the future
blind was present
past was blinking
like a blinding mission

sinking moods
stifling words
heart listens
it hearkens
to every throb
upon the surface
of earth, air and water

dawn was far off
the bride was dying
her hopes were waning
it was a wish tied to the heart
secretely prized unseen to eyes
freezing reality started dewing
and she started shivering
when truths started barking

midnight hours
jamming chords of power
every second was sinking
into the hopelss linking

transparent thoughts trailed
vanishing images hailed
the flicker died out
and silence worded out
thus ends the night before dawn.........