Fighting breath a daily affair
to swallow food a task practiced
the child frail in look
contorted frame her only house
...
Just as the white dove that flies high
greeting the clouds of mighty white
me too journeying ever facing the clouds
in search of a destination of wondrous beauty
...
A baby lay forgotten
In the womb of the dead mother;
Still breathing the last few breathes
The remaining of the mother’s last air.
...
As she releases the hair straight
The breeze couldn’t wait to caress
And smell
Her soft hair.
...
There is
behind every closed door
of every human conscience
silent whispers
...
Chiaroscuro of twilight ends
As night embraces the day
Bleak- everything seems to be
Not just the night but feelings too.
...
Every soldier is a willing terrorist
Waiting only for the order to come
To pull the trigger on someone
And throw granites at another one.
...
Yesteryears' stroll
slowly begins to roll
into my memories of old
chatting many things
...
Suddenly I felt very uneasy
My body trembled and felt a little warmer
I am losing balance
And was sweating – cold sweat.
...
The days gone by
in thorns scattered
i stepped ignorantly.
tears dropped, wetting my cheeks
...
When the sun rays peep
from between the curtains every morning
they wake up
Only to see everything around me
...
Iif life is hardship
will I be made an anchor in you?
if life is happiness
will my eyes shed tears of sorrow?
...
by sending air through hollow bark
a trumpeteer with a trumpet
works a miracle that hums
and put to sleep the sorrow of many;
...
Birth and rebirth
is nothing but poles apart,
without one, the other is dead.
...
'Twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are
up above so high
like a diamond in the sky.'
...
Spreading the wings wide
she flies high across the sky
searching for a lost fraction
that was once its blood tie.
...
Cerebral Palsy
Fighting breath a daily affair
to swallow food a task practiced
the child frail in look
contorted frame her only house
she lie flat on her back
notorious indeed the mat
sores scrap wide her skin red.
limitations a hindrance
she remains locked in her frame
many she wants to say
alas…none we could decipher.
the person inside raring to go
she, a spark of the divine
lost the key to her hut
she suffers in silence;
her eyes tossing to right and left
looking for an interpreter
to translate her language she communicates
she fails herself in desperate efforts
because pretentious mankind understand her not.
though I know that she knows a lot
only time will let her express her thoughts
until then I will be searching for the right key
so I may one day unlock her from clutch of that agony.
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Hello, I would like to request your permission to cite your poem on cerebral palsy. It's for a book that I'm writing about my aunt's experience of having cerebral palsy. She died 44 years ago. Thank you!