Arunoday Singh

 

I came across these fragments and unfinished pieces.  The notebooks themselves are falling apart with age and neglect.  Thought this would be a good place to preserve and clean them up.

***

Lonelier than the people I see

Feeding pigeons in the sun

Whistling to the squirrels

Begging them to come.

 

I sit in a crumbling tower of dreams,

Behind a forever-locked gate.

Staring at the empty pages

Smoking the cigarettes I hate.

 

Trying hard to capture a moment

Feeling unworthy every time.

I look into mirrors to remember my face

Reading words that can never be mine.

 

Who am I pretending to be today?

A poet, an actor, a wandering flame

Trapped in a stillness of spirit

Looking for something to blame

 

Searching for my corner of Beautiful

Somewhere to hide the love I keep.

To greet the dawn with a smile

And dive a thousand kisses deep.

***

You remain hidden from me,

Like all the hopes

We dare not breathe.

Sometimes I catch your scent

Lingering.  A wisp of magic

In a mundane day.

I see a smile I recognize

On an unfamiliar face.

 

I search through Coltrane

To understand the meaning

Hidden just beyond the words

I don’t quite understand.

All these words…

What happened to my voice?

 

I can’t force a picture to smile

Or a glass of wine to be truthful.

We are all locked within

Parodies of ourselves.

Searching not for a way out,

But to trap another within.

***

Where do your dreams take you

Love?

Into the meadows we were banished from.

Into the songs the Seraphim hum.

Feathers on the summer wind,

Where do your dreams take you

Love?

 

Do you see my face, there

just beyond the Light?

Where all the things you wish for dwell.

Waves of hope against the darkness swell.

Do you see my face there

Love?

 

 

I cannot make the words beautiful.

I cannot make them sing the songs I hear.

You are the beauty and the song

The flame of my hearth.

You are my burning bush,

my desert cave.

My brimming cup of nectar.

You are my final goddess

My last loss of faith.

 

 

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