Arid Bitterness
These meaningless tears of sorrow
Flowing like mighty waters
Gushing forth in mighty jets
Of suppressed emotions
Cascading down deep grooves
Of worn tenderness
Riddling my tired face
Pock marked with pitted grooves of hardened sorrow-
Riveted, riven, flailing of pained emotions
Plastered by certainty of times uncertainties
Sustained in-situ-
My head bows under drenching weight of these flows
Emerging from deep within,
My rivers of pain
Flow through emotional deserts of aridity
Cutting paths through remote emotional regions,
Rid of all fertility
Depleted of hope,
Empty abundance of torridity
These pain-studded landscapes
Of dead wooden feelings;
These stark landscapes
Providing grim picturesque backdrop
For descending mighty torrents that drench,
Momentarily softening
My landscapes of scarred pains-
These seeming aridity
Is suffuse with rich deposits
Of layered, accumulated pains
Evenly filtered into gradations of finesse
Soaking deep beneath placid expressionless surface
Of seeming quietude -
Perfusing abundance of sadness
Inlaid In lays laid deep beneath
These landscapes of aridity
Till full settled
Unexplored deposits, of
Stored experiences, these
Rich deposits of emotions wealth
Waiting to be discovered,
To share its lessons of passing age-
These furrows that time dug in layers deep
On this face, harbouring tides of bitter waters
Rising and falling, yet ever flowing,
Waters of bitterness, poisoning
Transient joy in fluid passage
Brilliant sparkles of thinned out hope, unsustaining-
With sinking pain
Till suffused, laden
Restraint's dam of overloaded pain
Bursts forth,
Breaking
These frail barriers crumbling;
Waters gushing forth-
My rivers of ever flowing pain
Overflowing its banks of guarded safety
In momentary lapse of weakness
Within Its sustained banks
Of self sustenance sustained
In sustenance of colloidal substance;
Sadness’ colloid conflux -
These deep grooves, ancient of origin
Lacerations on gentle façade of pretence
Markings of time Ingrained in pain,
The 'monkey slash' scarring
Set, deep, grooved furrow
Deepset, setting, settled
In resolute calmness subdued-
In these deep, dried gullies
That carries no sustenance-
Sorrow's tides of deep solitude
Flowing unseen through dry gullies
In remote places,
Isolated regions of wide expanse,
In hidden recesses of innermost solitude
Places far removed from commonplace-
These bitter waters,
They provide no sustenance
Sapping hope in swarming heat
Of torrid noonday sun
Heating heavy coldness within
Layers laid far beneath-
Till dissolved resolution of gaunt manhood
Is reduced to flowing sheets of muddied water
Descending with mind bending erosive force
Through these grooves of deep sorrow,
Artifice of time's pastime-
Accumulations of grit and toil
Plastered on enduring canvas,
These grooved flesh latent-
Silted dam of disappointment's mounds
Around which these tired flows meander,
Contortions of gentle flow
Drawn, scouring through virgin landscapes,
Bland dreariness of expectant innocence wasted-
