When Darkness Consumed Night Poem by Baru Gobira

[Inspired by Argentinean Poet Jorge Luis Borges –History of the Night]

The darkness has consumed night
Made us blind to the day
Oblivious to misery
Paralyzed to action
Impotent even in dreams
The madness has struck us
The shadows no longer threaten
For there is no light
Only distant sounds say
There are birds
There is a sky
A clear dawn was a morning
We met everyday
I can only see darkness
As I grope for the sky
Wait, there is hope
A glimmer of corn
Slowly rises to awaken the dawn.

July 2010 Hyderabad India