Words
Omila Thounaojam *
Words you're playful when you make me sound like a fool
Inadequate to convey the burning questions that reside within me
My self or selves trapped so deep into the grayish shades of life
You are too cruel when you are there with me but not at all
What do I think of you? What do I expect of you?
When you betray me all the times making me a clown before all
Like a jumping jack that should be funny but perhaps fail to do so
Tell me what do I do when each word I utter appear like a rhetoric
Strings of thought that should convey my thirst for true knowledge
Whatever I speak or write about and on never succeed in reaching there
That aspired territory, the highway that leads up to the brightest destiny
Instead what becomes of it is never the way I've ever expected
Hey words! You are there within me and yet you control and manipulate
My most honest beliefs get tainted almost by your nightmarish indifference
You destroy and corrupt the most sacred sides of life by your affected sides
No one seems happy today with plain white lines made up of less syllabic words
Indeed it's the air of our time that has infected human language and things it signifies
We can't survive without you in our lives but yet we are dwindling lot today guided
Almost all the time with your expectation from us to lead a life guided by jargon
True or false is not the easy choice we got to choose from at a moment like this
But to find a way back to a simple life and living inspired by hopes of
Paying more homage to building a simple humane world than just empty WORDS....
* Poem written by Omila Thounaojam who can be contacted at omilathounaojam(at)gmail(dot)com
This poem was webcasted on December 06 2012.
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