Contemplating the dark With a life neither bright nor stark Shrivelled and fragile inside Aiming for wonders of the glorious mind With the sun peeping out from ominous clouds Undisguised, yet elusive, towards an onset of doubts Shrouding any fallacy Cultivating mere fantasy And the phantom of a far-fetched imagination To bring out an electric, yet marvellous sensation Shut inside a mysterious cage Grasping poetry like some sage Aiming for aloofness While mourning over the senseless Forever the beauty of words is a myth Forever superficiality is a filth The sublime scenery of sunset swish Warms the heart, treasuring one’s deepest wish Via the shimmering dawn The azure sky I so adorn To sniff the sweet odour of nature All alone, as solitary as ever, with a hazy future Nobody can gauge the depth of the imaginary And taste the splendour of the ordinary All this simplicity unravels a cosy palace Where art is sacred; where the aesthetic is a solace To end up in sensuous poetry In which there’s no calculated geometry Where the comfort of spontaneity is soothing And readiness is but a blessing For in poetry, a loner like me finds her grace For via poetry, the solitary is free to embrace And through the line of a verse, the loner dwells a florid universe…