Cliff Hanger Poem by lalitha iyer

Let the hands go
and down you land upon the ground
full of frozen desires
the ground kills instant second

let the hands' grip fasten
and you are roped in into the life basin
you are sucked into the vortices of lust and emotion
betwixt fantasies and focussed reality you slip caution

my heart is dangling from the cliff edges
I look below and ready to jump I decide
somebody beckons me up above the sky
and I just re-girdle and madly strive to up-dive

between mad mad emotions I strangled like a street dog dead
this second elevates me, next smothers me into smoky chambers fed
I melt now into a song and then into a stony solid bang
between life and death, how many time could I live and die?