top of page
Search

This Encounter Of Abyss

Writer: Hashtag Kalakar
Hashtag Kalakar
Feb 13, 2023
1 min read

By Karthika Rajan


What if I’m a star stuck around a black hole

Orbiting around

As a mute commentator of all that is known, unknown and unknowable

Well studied, yet merely understood

Just like a virus.


What if I'm in love with this despair

This fatalism

This frantic swirling past its starving host

Despite being devoured of its own matter.


What if, this encounter of abyss

With these silhouettes of harmonized breathing

Sabotaging itself

For a scrap of intimacy

Reveals the depth of all my cracks





In a trillion years

After the chaos has yielded

Past all penalty

One nightmare less

But a dream lost


This star - I hope shall be

Kneaded into a planet

A planet - I dare say - holds a promise

As glorious as the star it was born from.


By Karthika Rajan





Recent Posts

See All
Unlearn

By Ella Hilderbrand We all have them. A pair. Ten fingers, two palms. Knuckles that can bruise and calluses that can form. Veins that supply blood to the flow of our souls. Hands express, create, hurt

 
 
 
Something That Still Needs

By Vanshika Gupta I keep reading articles about how to say goodbye, but none of them are right. People talk about it like it’s simple—a final word, a door closing, a life folding into silence. But end

 
 
 
The Past

By Varenya Shekhar A lot has changed over the course of three years. Some for the better, and some we regret. Bittersweet memories are all that is left of the moments we shared but are also the ones w

 
 
 

Comments

Rated 0 out of 5 stars.
No ratings yet
Add a rating
bottom of page