It’s you…again!

I pledge to find the clamour everyday
hoping to bury your voice there one day

One step I take, it throws me two steps back
I continue; sensing the challenge

I am still at ease, marching forth
wanting to embrace the clamour with force

In my mind, I hear it and I thank it
Knowing that this time I am not alone

Seems this clamour is getting closer to me
spotting that I am faltering with no hope

It promises to walk the distance for both
All it wants me to do is just hold it once

I open my eyes and stretch my hand to grab it
I find you right there so beautifully laughing at me

If it were words, I would forget
If it were silence, I would forgo

It is your voice; it is your presence
which my heart fails to write off

How do I still try? How do I still deny?
How do I still look for any other world?

The feel is real, the feel is profound
I can win over the lie; how do I win over the truth?

The clamour disappears, the mockery stops
The emptiness prevails, the numbness wins one more time!

Again it is you; again it is your voice
Again it is me, running miserably to escape it!

-DEEPALI S. BASUR, Co-founder & Chief Editor, www.ethinksharp.com