Midnight Chaos

By Taniya Mukhopadhyay

Murky road, shallow breaths.

I fail to see my way ahead.

Am I walking forward? Or

Am I going back again?

I gasp for air, I am drowning.

I am drowning in the sea of ordinary.

I try to wake up from the dream,

That pulls me back; strangles me.

Words fall short, I fail to write.

It is a midnight chaos in broad daylight.

I stagger in my drunken stupor,

My senses inebriated

By the toxins of the swarming bees

Squirming in my broken sleep, I try

To shine the light of my lonely being.

A dim tinkle in the quagmire, a shattered soul

I fail to dazzle through my midnight chaos.

By Taniya Mukhopadhyay