Scary silence crept upon me
Like a monster that swallowed
Each sound, cramped it in its
Dingy bowel and sat across my table.
Hurt flashed at the tip of the raised
Whip and my skin trembled
As I saw age old vendetta
Amass in the tormentor's hard eyes.
Tyranny like a ravenous serpent,
Dug its fangs into my mind
And poisoned every thought
That wriggled or moved within.
I had taken the wrath of providence
With bowed head and folded hands
Traded rosy life for pale death
That roamed free in my back alley.
Guilt swathed me like maggots
Devoured me from inside out
Exposing the bare bones of sin
That no confession could dissolve.
Another chapter of tryst ended
And you left with many words
Still concealed under the cloak of ego,
While I sat nursing the open wounds of love.
Seema Aarella
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/solid-shadows/
