Wednesday, April 6, 2016

An Attempt To Paint A Portrait

I want to imagine painting a self portrait
With eye lashes so long as to almost 
Touch the skies, 
Eyes looking like sparkling jewels, 
Radiating looks that can create 
Waves of love, hiding in some
Inner corners of the soul.
I look into the mirror to find
My eyes, lacking luster, over the years
And tears all dried leaving a residue
Of degenerative macular vision, veins
Almost drying out and leaving
The image dusty, tampered, 
On the tearing retina and mind,
A reflection of what a soul felt, 
Despite covered in dust.
Levering a hurt that is a constant agony
Hidden burden over ages,
Through cycles of countless lives and deaths.

That look, those eyes once had, witnessed
Countless number of souls fall to the ground, 
To be an image in those gleaming lenses, 
Are now, dense and deep seated,
With cheek bones protruding up, 
As the facial muscles wore out.
A face that once was as fresh as 
An apple of the eye, 
Turned saggy, wrinkled, with chopped lips
Laughter that once would resound music
Of hundred sitars, was working hard, 
In keeping the voice without 
Creating a hoarse, reverberating 
Heart wrenching cough, spitting out
Yellow base phlegm from the inner walls 
of the corroded sacs of Lungs, struggling hard
To remain alive, and keep a form, a smile
To that bag, that holds the toothless smile, 
Pretending to be elated by the failures
As if indicating the spirit 
Of an unkempt body, 
With a withering, frail, skeleton, 
So flawless, that 

It shines through the dried eyes
With a recognition of seeing the relative, 
A long lost son, a prodigal child, that was
Never ever seen in life,
The unborn, to face the world
With faces forlorn, for raking the traditions, 
Breaking rules, exploited, raped, and helpless
And young, of a scared unwed mom, 
An extradition by closed society 
Sans compunction, pity or love...
For a millennium, until the spring rose and spread
The beaming light from the blue bonnets, 
To heal the heart, and the soul and Universe...


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