Petrified Heart's Elegy Poem by Sachin Sunny

In childhood's twilight, love exiled,
A citadel of sorrow piled.
Ramparts towering, scraping skies,
A heart ossified, where hope dies.

Thirsting for warmth, yet recoiling swift,
Affection's touch—a poisoned gift.
Pyrrhic pursuits of elusive hearts,
Leave me splintered, torn apart.

Erudition sought, a shield of frost,
To numb the ache of all I've lost.
While others bask in Eros' glow,
I drift through vast seas of woe.

Familial tendrils reach in vain,
Their love ignites a caustic pain.
I wrench away, to shadows flee,
Where feelings wilt in atrophy.

Is this my doom, this barren trail?
Childhood's specter, an endless wail?
A petrified heart yearns to soar,
Yet dreads the fall to passion's shore.

Internal tempests rage and roar,
To love, to lose, to try once more.
A war waged with each labored breath,
'Twixt life half-lived and living death.

A scream of anguish, trapped inside,
'Love me! ' it pleads, but I subside.
Perplexed by silence self-imposed,
This puzzle leaves me juxtaposed.
The 'why' echoes through chambers bare,
Of change, I'm lost in deep despair.

Yet still I stand, though fissures deep,
Cleave through my soul, make angels weep.
For even granite can transmute,
Perhaps this heart might bear new fruit.