Madhuparna Chakraborty

Nocturnal songbird
reigning like the queen of darkness
hiding the gnawing torments of her youth into the Stygian black
repulsed by the light at dawn
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Wretched and forlorn in the emptiness of her soul
waiting for her love to come back
inconsolably forsaken
as a lonely bird
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Darkness is like the dark bird
Into its bosom i hide my face and seek refuge
Oh darkness, give me your mighty wings
A child of midnight, into the dark skies furiously i shall fly
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A tap on the shoulders recklessly
tempting are the stranger paths,
fate beckons that intrepid adventurer in me.
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