Darkness

When I close my eyes
or lights are put off
I see darkness
crawling in all around
undefined, yet dismissive
looking a bit ominous,
but within a few minutes,
I start seeing
some images and caricatures
both known and unknown
moving and still,
due to some doubts and fears
or just imagination,
one ends and another begins,
taking turns
and even stops momentarily,
but destroys nothing,
I never feel blank
or a complete black out…

I feel some feelings
both inner and outer,
the inner ones know the true feel
and the outer may be just a facade,
yearning for praises and platitudes,
that makes me melancholic,
I look inwardly
in that darkness
to find out my soul
at the distant end of the tumnel,
but well within me
well within my reach…

Darkness is never a curse
but its consistency is…

–Kaushal Kishore

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