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Mar 2021 · 194
A Chameleon to His Shadow
"WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into
corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body..."

I am hundred years dead
And the water is dread wide —
Hunch I my head against the wind
Straight from the shoulder, H/E angst,
But goes my algorithm awry —
Memory nipped my insanity yesternight...
... ... Mortified right I was;
Ain't cotton to lovers for years...no...
Could slip they my pious sleep away
By a little sleight of hand...
Love is a briny deep, but sets at the shore,
Vaporizing the Vistavision — and

How all the dreams that sound subdued,
   Not to be assayed and to be limited not,
Follow the spells of fatuity's skill sorcerous —
   From the cradle to the pyre
Chased I the broken velvet sky; let  
   The sacred shudder to ask what toxins they contain;
Eventide breaks from pain to fountain pen,
   Count I thy decrepit blessings —

Brain crying dearth,
              heart...peopled by void,
                   soul acting out an enigma,
                        shadow wounds up to sleep —
Thou water not wet...
Their carousal is on a carousel ride —
Awaiting my high the next low tide...

Come thick with me and be my thin,
We shall die down, but hang in;
The sun liar mounts and rains my croon,
Spy not quicksand, we pink moon —

My, my, a thousand-spring-dead - I!
The balloon did spring not a leak; still
I'm suspiring time —
Abhishek Talukder is a filmmaker and a writer.

— The End —