Saturday, November 06, 2004

ERSATZ

Cradled by faith to believe something bygone,
Suckled by pain till frigidity throngs,
You close your eyes to avoid the darkness outside
Only to realise it’s darker inside.

Hope evanesces at an unbelievable pace
As edifices of dreams crumbles in your face,
You’re falling as you see, your withering you can feel,
But all you do is sit and stare like you don’t care.

Wayward thoughts enter in and close
The doors and windows to sanity.
Are sympathy and affection left in the cold-
As you sink into the womb of ignorance?

Endless questions arise,
As you stagger under the burden of being strong.
You wonder if you really want to win,
The game you have played for so long.

You look around you and it appals you,
To look at the muted screams,
Exploding behind the ersatz smiles,
Pasted on covetous faces.

You look in the mirror and see,
Eyes so hollow, they don’t attempt to speak.
You look in the mirror and see someone else,
A self-donned mask that has now imprisoned you,
Making you look like something that will never be true.

Disregard comforts,
As days turn darker than nights,
Truth extinguishes erasing the path to verity,
Will you be stuck in this bottomless fall-
That lies between life and mortality?


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