When I speak I have to assume <br />You are both there standing apart <br />Listening to me from somewhere I know not. <br />You are my engravers of times ahead <br />And you are both <br /> <br />I tell confessional truths one of you hears that <br />And conventional lies and the other of you hears that! <br />Though my utterances are heard high <br />They are not a part of my aggressive ego. <br />It is my fault perhaps that I beget them. <br /> <br />The resolutions of my conflicts with time <br />Have changed since long as usual <br />And I fell the foul smell of the broken promises and <br />The cremation of those dreams expired long before. <br />Are you both listening? <br /> <br />At times I feel the breath of some love <br />Half clad in lust and fancies <br />They are ransacking my entity, <br />A blend of things not endearing to either of you -my listeners. <br />Hope I am down to earth here! <br /> <br />My head has a hoisted fever telling the world <br />Of my imminent old age a misnomer for semi-death <br />And my eyes have water gushing from the interior skull <br />That will stare at the blood and flesh of others later. <br />You feel the shiver and the fall, don`t you? <br /> <br />The resolute otherness of you all <br />Baffles me and I search for an inner eye. <br />Charity alone cannot resolve any misery <br />As I seek to open a window <br />Many are opening theirs and what we see together <br />Is the cluster of life spilt <br />By the naughty God of otherness <br />I have ever distanced myself from. <br /> <br />You my lean friend -the first listener is laughing <br />And you my second listener is weeping for a change <br />But I am happy you know <br />You both are there! <br />What if none else listens to me!<br /><br />M.D Dinesh Nair<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-if-none-else-listens-to-me/
