All of a sudden,
I have become an actor:
An actor in
myriad costumes;
Coated with
Colgate smiles and cordialities
Oozing out from me rhetorics, polished…
Perhaps I am
acting well
I was taken into
the crew
And to my
wonder!
I am moving
on!!!
………………………
Cheers and
frothing drinks
A burnished world
of tapestry…
Glittering faces
in silky sarees,
Morbid physiques in ironed suits…
In all smiles!!
Nothing else…
measured smiles
I too learned
that art of smiling
As perfumed
hands embraced me,
I stood like a
statue
Need I return
the embrace?
But I remember,
I too was
smiling then…
……………………………………..
Now the last ray
of light too flickered, and died
Into in a deep
hollow,
I opened my eyes…
reluctantly
I saw me then…
Lost in
wilderness
Laughing and
howling
Soiling myself
with dust rough;
I took a deep
breath
As if I need a
thousand days’ fill
I was afraid of
suffocation
I need more…I
need more…
…………………………….
The lights came
to life again
And force me
shut my eyes
Shut my world…
shut my love
I gave in
I closed my eyes
tight
And waited for
another darkness
To come and make
me a Narcissus
