Like leaves falling randomly in autumn...blown away further by even the most gentle breeze...such are my thoughts...light...fragile...and momentary....

Saturday, December 2, 2006

The Road To Nowhere

My first step on this road to nowhere,
Was the heaviest of them all...
I looked back once....
And tried so hard to stop...
Yet there was something that shimmered at a distance...
It beckoned me...
Mesmerised,enchanted,spellbound...
I tread along...
Then it became easier to leave a bit of me each time I stopped,
Certainly felt lighter after letting go of my Conscience...
It was ridiculous! It tried to stop me time and again...
Didn't It know where my happiness lay?
I got rid of It and carried on...
One more step, yet another one
Further away from the rest of the world,I followed my illusion...
Thoughts kept gushing into my mind,
Not many made sense....
The usual turmoil....and a numbness thereafter...
Preserving my sanity got tough,the road was rough,
And I but alone...
A part of me still pulled me back,
But I refused to listen,
I failed to see any reason strong enough to overpower my mind's illusion.
Finally, I'm almost there...just a few more steps...
I pause one last time to look within me...
And this is what I see-
I'm no longer me-I'm split!
A part of myself smirks,while a part of me cries,
Another part consoles me, but I know this part only lies...
I frantically search for the usual shimmer,
Not a trace of it I find...
And I stand shattered...
I know not what I've been walking towards?
But there's no way back...
Only a dead end.

2 comments:

Vijaya said...

I still do not know what made me write this...this is my first poem that doesn't rhyme...maybe because life is not always perfect,not always melodious,not always soothing,not always how we would like it to be...
Sometimes we do not know what we are doing...some things keep hurting,yet we do not stop doing them coz if we let go of that pain,maybe we'll be left with nothing...

DayPlanner said...

nice one honestly