The Remedy of a Helpless Life

By Sharvani Bhalerao

A silenced night brings the finest imagination’s,

Ore just that everyone is asleep except me,

Cringing and turning till my mother whispers me to stop.

The hushed silence is peaceful for me to imagine,

To imagine myself cease away from my body and escape from the window as swift has a hawk,

And to hover in the sky with those ivory stained wings,

Which when united with the twinkling stars and sun,

Start sparkling so much that even the moon shies himself from me.

I swoop towards that lonely tree,

The largest I have known,

The one that touched the stars,

The one who was half dead due to its loneliness,

That tree gave me solace and I didn’t know why.

I go there thinking of myself as its saviour,

To sit on it branches,

To rekindle it with my touch.

But behold there’s someone else there,

With her wings dazzling,

Her face invisible in the soothing darkness,

Except her eyes just like mine.

I implore her to tell me her identity,

In her subtly melodic voice, she says ‘Your life’,

Her big eyes fix their glances to my face, studying my bewildered expression,

She says, ‘After all, this is where you gave up on me’.

By Sharvani Bhalerao