A Deviant PilgrimA Poem by Baibhab Bose
What lies at the end of our pilgrimage
we may never know because of
Our deviant courses and daylight debauchery.
Sticking to his face, a tattoo of sleep
Scratches his skin through, when it weighs much.
Apathy sneaks into his study room and festers.
The girl who sleeps on the out-thrust of an indoor balcony,
I say this to you,
The tailbone of my half awake girlfriend
Wrapped around with sweat-soaked blue dress
Resembles your succulent heinie.
And I am confused in which to
drive my desperate intimacy within.
The big city ahead with Mists and mountains
Oceans and orgy parties and a
dull statue of one legged Hen on the busiest square
Never remembers people who came
through a million marshes to him with hope.
Dead memories of old lovers hang by their last block of spine
and sweat soaked again, not the Sweat of love,
sweat of a wizened decaying matter.
Lonely people walks at lonely beach in the eve
To impress the Mighty Ocean, to offer allegiance.
lonely people are often restricted from the rim of their smartphones
Just like Shiny knights in the Pinnacle of the City Castle
Dead memories come alive in soft dreams.
Scars of sleep have made a mask out of his face.
Deeper than a tattoo, deeper than a skin,
our deviant pilgrim has found its way to the land of the creatures of remembrance,
loved like one's own kin.
© 2016 Baibhab BoseAuthor's Note
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Added on June 15, 2016 Last Updated on June 15, 2016 AuthorBaibhab BoseKolkata, West Bengal, IndiaAboutI am a delusional, disoriented and phantasmagorical old chap who suddenly wanted to start sharing poems online, one fine morning. I'm also a painter, and want to befriend artists! :) more..Writing
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