April 2021 Winner

Soliloquy of a Soul

Fabiyas M V

 

I feel I’m everywhere,

free and wispy.

 

I find love and loss in the wet eyes.

How long will I linger in your hearts?

 

Strange were my dreams

in the final earthly phase;

the unknown lands

and the divine vibes.

 

How fast the body bloats!

But my beauty will never be disfigured

in your minds.

 

The funeral rite is a reverence for me.

Each generation has its own foolish

but virtuous beliefs.

 

I lost my pleasures

in the man-made complications.

I had to live with hypocrisies.

 

Even my hyena-eyed enemy is

among the mourners.

But I’m behind a silence.

 

I realize the insignificance

of the body that carried me.

It’s still and stinky

in my absence.

 

I will soon return to the old void

to reappear somewhere

as fresh as a banana shoot.

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