Abstract
My heart is
like a river
filled with floating corpses.
decayed bodies
swept to the shore
on each tide…
life…
like a frozen drop of tear
opaque and obscure
clouding my cornea….
a solid sob
suffocatingly stuck
deep in my throat….
life…
like a knife
double edged
mincing my hopes
mercilessly
memories
like a disturbed beehive
stinging savagely
stagnated days
stinking
like a blocked drainage
maggots of boredom
multiplying in millions
mornings
dropped from the dark roof
like a dead rat
lifeless and listless
noon
baked in the furnace
red hot like melting iron
scalding the silent soul
nights
hanging from the horizon
silent as a grave
sobbing as a slave
sleep
like an orphaned child
trembling in the corner
dreads to close its eyes
colourless dreams
hanging over the night
like ragged clothes
quivering in vain…
On this terminal shore
awaiting the last wave
when the last thoughts
from my convoluted cortex
escapes through the nerves of an electrode….
when
the last beats of my sobbing heart
escapes through the veins of a stethoscope
when I
fade from the memories
like a drifting cloud
into the infinity….
Come my dear
Come my, dear
Come, my dear
with a candle flame of hope
with a frothing flute of Champagne
with the soothing shade of an orchard
With the taming tunes of a lyre
like Orpheus ∗
to revive me and retrieve me
from the frozen silence of the mortuary….
back
to the gracious gift of life
to the still sad song of life
Footnotes
∗Most famous musician ever lived in the Greek mythology who recovered Eurydice from the underworld of the dead.