A Whisper Sounds Like Scream Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Oh today's un-tethered men and women
That listen to way less than a one-half,
Absorbing half of that— (all bull and calf!) ,
Reacting still as many times as twice—
In fraction of what we may call a trice,
Those that think thro their heart, head next to none,
No wonder that a lot in life goes wrong,
Sounding like an off-key, out of tune song,
In mad haste still, lo, these men and women,
On edge forever of a precipice,
End up (what else)bang on as they began—
Like two pawns of a gambling game of dice;
But when life sinks, and sours like a bad dream,
A whisper sounds like pathetic shrill scream.
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Men and women seem to fall in love and out of it as fast; come together as fast as fall foul; together in bed and still miles apart; always on the edge, pouts of doubt; their whispers sounding like screams.
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Sonnets, tongue-in-cheek | 06.02.16 |