I’ve seen all <br />I’ve heard all <br />I’ve absorbed all <br /> <br />Routine dawns fading into <br />Ruthless dusks into <br />Ravaging nights… <br /> <br />Haven’t I heard <br />Nights wailing like <br />An abandoned infant <br />At the street end? <br /> <br />Haven’t I felt <br />The leprous skin <br />Of the night— <br />Ugly and haunting? <br /> <br />Haven’t I heard <br />The palpitating nights <br />Breaking into an <br />Uncontrollable sweat? <br /> <br />Haven’t I seen <br />Nights showing defiance <br />In reluctant surrender <br />And cold embraces? <br /> <br />Haven’t I seen <br />Nights raise in rebellion <br />Against an unwilling body <br />And disinclined mind? <br /> <br />Haven’t I absorbed <br />Nights of callousness <br />Stomping me under <br />Hitler’s heavy boots? <br /> <br />I simply looked in disinterestedness <br />As night’s finger lifted with the pointedness <br />Of a cartographer to draw new lines of longitude <br />and latitude on the terrain of my skin-scape <br /> <br />I simply looked in passivity <br />As nights wrapped me in a blanket of suspicion <br />And experimented with my emotional <br />And bodily contours… <br /> <br />Haven’t I seen the ugly manifestations of <br />Dissatisfaction and jealous <br />And the elsewhere desires <br />Satiated through erotic zones? <br /> <br />This too I have seen: <br />Stark daylight mocking me <br />With its twisted lip <br /> <br />No longer, I said <br />No more, I warned <br />Enough, I pronounced <br />Of this seemingly unending <br />Lonesome voyage through the dark seas <br /> <br />And that too have I seen... <br /> <br />13mar2010 <br />03.40hrs<br /><br />indira babbellapati<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/voyage-on-the-dark-seas/
