Catharsis

(To whomsoever it may concern)

My World’s an ugly truth & your world’s a beautiful lie,

I knew I’d end up dejected no matter how hard I try!

How cruel and deceptive is reality, and how I assumed I was smart;

The dreams that I built got locked stoically in my heart.

Yesterday, when the cuckoo sang an ode to your beauty,

Then paling in your presence, the reddest Roses writhed in jealousy.

Me, a mundane creature lost in the travails of daily life,

How wrong for a mortal to gaze upon a Star so bright and right, it’s ripe for strife!

But the pains that I endured and the smiles that I generated

Would pale as I failed to conquer the one heart that mattered,

All the trysts we had and the hopes that I entertained,

Would all be shadows and dust in the fell clutch of feeling nothing.

But, Darling, consign all the melancholy and nostalgia to me,

As I look up to the heavens that are blessed with your charming grace.

In the lonely days and longing nights that follow, I smile and cry,

For the little things that mattered, the memories we made, pleasures even Gods couldn’t deny!

 

 

Poem - Catharsis

Maheeth Veluvali, 

16 Saladi Jamindar Street, Palakollu,.

Saturday - 15th of May, 2021.