Outing Into Darkness Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Sinking low in fathomless misery
The poet seeks an escape vent.
Takes this as an outing into darkness
A free fall in a gliding motion
Into the depth of the ocean
Away from the surface storm
Knowing he can’t be down beneath bottom,
And even there would be swimming
With all the life that make it their abode
Wrapped in blackness yet luminescent
In the filtered glow up from above
Dreaming one day to find their way back
To the warm hug of sunlight.
This affords him a survival, belief-driven,
Alike the last breath that hopes a heaven!