AWARENESS OF SELF AND THE OTHER

By ASWATHI PRASANTH

Beware! These are spreading From mind to mind Eyes to eyes Hearts to hearts-

Those silences exchanged In numbed stares Those sighs exchanged In frozen indifference

About a waiting For solving you As you are there To cure the mind And that mind is you Never ever that beautiful body Never ever that ravishing smile

It was just this mind That has been reigning you Your steps Your grips Your smile Your guile

Back to the waiting room The wall pictures The colors All are in black and white How often you had to Shiver inside the rounds For reasons known for some,

Never for you

So you became that mind Just that mind That doesn't know much by itself In the waiting room You saw dead eyes The dim light from those Killing than deadly silence Their eyes were vomiting Soundless sighs The light inside the room Swallowed by Tongues tied in helplessness You dared to peep into one pupil It was not dilating It was not bored to stay It failed the stability of statues You attempted at the other The pupil was almost buried inside It was almost deformed In the years of derangement Dreams were resting in peace But only in corrosion You went there For solving you And you turned back That lot many have Already tried and failed And you stepped out Telling yourself that Better never be cured If cured, I am no longer I

By ASWATHI PRASANTH