Aftermath Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

It is not a wallow in
the shallow of ordinariness,
it is a dive into depths
which leaves bruises
galore on the very being.

Love for the sake of it,
shed the addendums
that have made you,
the real you to disappear into
the cushy oblivion of reality.

Come out of the cocoon
be a butterfly, a multi hued
being with emotions galore.
Let us soak in myriad
colours and disappear.

It liberates to cease to be
normal, crushingly mundane.
Let us crisscross zillion times
with uncertainty and become
a lump of intangibles.

Then we can turn blind to
the aching sights of reality,
deaf to the sounds to
platitudes and paeans about
the scum of normalcy.

Let us raze those boulders
of prohibitive righteousness
and race ahead with heads
held high into the realm of truth
of neutrality and liberation.

Let us become miniscule
too miniscule beyond the
scope of the lens of reality.
Like bacterium and then eat
into each other and be nothing.