Half – Being

Folder: 
Satish Verma

Between a calm and a thunder, 
I amputate my days, from the mediocre life of mindless alienation. 
I bemoan for sanctity. 
Man remains innocent of, 
another man’s melody. 
I get frightened. 
Birds are suddenly falling from the sky. 

Where the heart denies 
a heart, a perfect rhythm, 
mind bares a wound. 
History does not repeat the truth. 
Blank shadows break the windows 
and I collect the ashes, 
from the burnt plots and ruined homes. 

Sometimes you pretend to kill, 
an argument deliberately 
to know the depth of the answer. 
The turmoil of half-being; 
the unhappiness of fulfillment, 
the transformation of a death into peace, 
was it in harmony?