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DESTINATION: NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BANGALORE

Blindly

In the darkness of the night
Faintly gliding under the moonlight
Is a figure that trudges along.
Is it for real?
Or is it an illusion?
The aura humming a melancholic song.

Abruptly, it stops.
Slowly, it turns.
A vision befalling
My heart begins to churn

The world moves slowly
Time melts like wax
But the candle extinguishes
As I see myself staring back.

The scene flickers
The spirit soars
I see through a different pair of eyes
With nothing where I stood before

It feels cold beneath
As the ground below slips
The sand rushing away
Spilling through my toe-tips
Filling the spaces between
Making me wonder
Whether it’s the grains that rise
Or I sink under
They itch in my nails—
Their desolate hideout
But as my feet defy gravity
They find a way out.

A way out—
That is my Mecca too.
Hands flailing, eyes searching
For solidarity in solitude

And as a cold whisper calls out
From far into the sea
Promising comfort, promising warmth
I walk towards it blindly.
My feet gather pace
My heart finds a mate
As determination sets in finally
Yes, I walk towards it blindly.
They break into a run-
A run for peace
Away from misery
I run towards it blindly.

Gradually, the grains don’t matter
Gradually the terrain alters
My bare feet find liquid ground
But the steps never falter.

The whisper grows louder with every inch
Pulling and hissing
No beat missing
No second glance
At what’s behind
No second thought
I only see me blind.

There is the sound of the moonlight
And the sound of the splashes
The sound of my pant
But all I hear are the majestic flashes.

Now the water’s chest-deep
Yet my heart’s found upliftment.
When suddenly deathly silence finds life
My direction finds annulment
But I know it’s calling me out still
Probably with not that alacrity
Voice loses sound underwater
That’s where it must be
And that’s where I’ll look for it
If need be…till eternity…

ETERNITY...

Dusk
A hungry tigress plays with her cubs
It’s been long since they were fed
A mother’s anxiety driving her ahead
To aggression
To craze, to desperation
She nudges, she licks, she pushes
Till a prey she spots beyond the bushes
And as her instincts stand on one end
Knowing, for her children she will now fend
She waits with alacrity
That wait is eternity.

Another place, another town
In a dark alley three blocks down
A man shuts his eyes in prayer
To behold that with open eyes he can’t dare
A generation’s animosity
Precipitated without pity
He hears the pull of the trigger
A silent chuckle, a louder snigger
He knows his end is near
Heart filled with remorse and fear
He awaits mortality
That wait is eternity.

Over the hill, a new life begins
To elation and ache, a mother feels akin
With each throb and each kick
The breath of a new life flicks
It’s been a whole day’s pain
Enough to drive anyone insane
But it’s the mother’s love that bears patience
A new fulfilment, a cleaner conscience
Trying with all migh to push her out
Emotions and energy flying about
A woman in labour awaits beginnings pretty
That wait is eternity.

The emptiness seems endless
Only his name won’t cure the distress
As a girl caresses the letter
Of a lover in a faraway land feeling no better
The distance stretches on for miles
She wipes a tear from her cheek and smiles
Knows her sighs will not be enough
The past six months have been rather tough
She hugs her legs and dwells in memories
Her loneliness amid reminiscence she buries
A solitary lover awaits arms mighty
That wait is eternity.