Castigation

Behold our blue orb!
Enduring the strokes...
Strokes tingeing her crimson.

The erubescent terrene is
All but exalted
At her sons’ deeds.

Can the maternal eyes
Condone the spectacle of
One kid slaying another?

An arduous choice
She made, to impart
Feral edification.

Gushing seas,
Terrifying tremors,
Erupting craters:
Penalties, the sapphire
Bestows, in vain.

The Agnostic

Billions believe!
Millions do not!
Sans an inkling of
Belonging to either clique,
Marooned, in the isle
Of vacillation...
Confounded by dogmata
Of the twain coteries...
Arises the qualm-
Rationale or Reverence?
One engenders elevation
Of the self...
One renders sanctuary
In the chimerical sheath
Of the Tutelary’s grace...
Head and heart, in unison,
Opt to eschew either.
Serene is the soul, now.

The Golden Cage

Her fingers met the bars
As she reached out.

In the corral of gold,
Merry, she was
Presumed to be.

The essence of bliss-
She envisaged, beneath her
Companions’ veil of obsequious nescience.

Disinclined to abide canons,
Bizarre she was
To the lesser eccentrics.

Confronted with many a dissent,
Her hope of a vicissitude
Dwindled into nihility !

Not at her volition
She took a decision.

Her soul partly with her goal,
A spurious smile she adorned
To face the world.

Eternal Friendship

The stars twinkled,
Not without envy
At the joyous pair
Upon the cloud of concord.

A rapport they shared:
It was beyond
The empyrean souls’ radius
Of perception and cognizance.

The timeless treasure
They shared- the amity,
Would last aeons, was
The certain surmise, each had.

Nemesis has but no victims
They were no anomaly.
Lightning struck the cloud !
They drifted physically away.

But, the tenacious friendship grew
Stronger, the rift of a thousand miles
Could not separate the close hearts.
The ken of true bond, dawned.