Solid Shadows Poem by Seema Aarella

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.