Iridium

Scarlet letter and blotted fingers; A paper and it's art across the wrist; Trust is only textbook: A mere convention like patriarchy; But not quite, is it? While one flourished, the other- Well, Bacon couldn't with his epigrams Convince. A diamond, sure is; And I had been greedy. I fell for the aqua eyes, which Under the sun, hid a patch of forest, Under the dim candle or The red luminescent in my apartment Revealed some browns worth mining; Quite a hidden paradise, I assumed. Huh! only infested with rodents; And I joined the club, only My teeth were blunt. And I donated my eyes to your prior. All my clothes are burnt- You've worn them all. I might even borrow one from a serpent, But then I would be wearing you. I was no Holmes, I didn't want to be I simply wanted one HOME I found that in your sandalwood musk In your.. your.. You. I found the truth and Pearl is dented and now I prefer- Flowers...

The lamp in dungeon, Scalpel and a surgeon; The stone wall closing in, The sun in a glass caged in. Let me out! Let me out! The Lord of the moth is here. A dirty yellow spotted rear. I shrink in my armchair, Deluded as if in its lair Captured, Tortured, Smothered. I am not insane, Yet in a prison. Let me out! Let me out. Shut out the fire Of love, of needs dire. Close the blind Draw the curtains in hind. Lock the doors, Cock the guns. Repair the hinges, Prepare the trenches. The fiend is here, Beelzebub I fear. Doctor! Doctor! Don't dissect my receptor; The moths shall escape, Their shadows untam'd. Abysmal eyes like trypes adjoined Crowding the walls; Motionless; waiting to pounce, To fuse out the light Flickering in my sight. A billion wings alert To tear my flesh apart, Lest I feed on crumbs of hope , Cuff the fleeing light with rope. They be burning into ashes As they chip at my fleshes. Dead though I be, not them; Drunk in the life I made, Riseth from the ashes they are Ma...

In the perilous drains something afloat Dancing-drowning in the buoyant force. It shimmered neither Nor glimmered like crystal But like the Indian cousin, coal. Powdery and flaky skin it had not But possessed a flesh like this author abroad. Wild-roses, primroses pinched their noses The wild stench malevolent Of charred flesh in an infernal broil. The bulbous mass afloat, tarred, Heart of all infamy, Stayed affixed 'gainst the gallant stream, The ominous smell summoning the sins. The author thus bent to untangle The mossy tentacles piercing the beating flesh In sync with the personal pulse much abhorred Of a heart guillotined. The author cupped the discarded in their palm, Desirous of impregnating their hollow abode. Like a flayed pig in a banquet hall The chest gaped with an inanimate hunger befall. But the nerves in the author's fingers Recoiled to paralysis- Dropping the slimy thumping mass and Saw it float to the abyssal depths, away.

I carry the mist and the seas in my eyes. Tempestuous thoughts in a cloudy canopy, Vaulting my mind. Wild west wind waging wars, Up the rocky cliff o'er the heath When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of red tulips Like slain soldiers, eschewed. The sea of faith had once pulsated My heart, with jocund and gallant tides. Now a dessert painted In spectre-grey, reminiscing The ancient pulse of germ and birth. Here's the last leaf my ink lingered on.

Cruel are those golden shards that cut through my curtains Opens an wound all too new, breaking a slumber all too a lure- It pierces my eyes and invades the gore corners of my abode. What does it witness, I wonder? The chipped embroidery my enamel carved, perhaps The ensemble of thoughts I decorate in my cubic nook- I gaze at the ones stacked in front, an armour to the gruesome, The trecherous intrepid memories dancing in a pagan trance, Invoking the amphibian cherub. Or perhaps the russet mural on concrete, a modern art- Maybe the entangled sheets Erebus and I made love Our carnal hunger overrode, tearing out our juglars and gut, Consumating Chaos- an apt betrothal. Mercy it is he's spondylitic, ignorant of the cold side of bed, Dyslexic or perhaps unschooled. The Nyxian celeste much wiser in the regard, a witness to the incongruity, Deciphered the phoneme- a blood curling voiceless velar fricative. I am a grapher, a photographer sometimes, a cartographer renowned. His golden fing...

It is in the wee hours that I think of you, How you welded the cracks of my heart. I love you, only, in these wee hours When my skin tingles with the reminder Of your- Fleeting caresses, Feather touches, and Familiar coos. These wee hours make me crave you To have you wholly- body and soul. I am pained, only, in these wee hours- A spade caving out my heart, Splinters puncturing my flesh, and Death wails bleeding my ears. And I am reminded why I must forget you.

They say I am good at speaking- a prolific orator, an intelligent debater, a skilled narrator. But why do I- fail to articulate emotions, as simple as a lamb? why must they coil up in a maze, so the phrases lose their way; Liberated from the labyrinth too late. Why do I, stumble, stutter, sigh; can’t communicate in fluent currents- like a river or pour heavy like rain? Why do I-

A demigod with a head of two- O ne sings hymns, the other screams- Two minds, two voices with an eye each- One that resides in me. Heteroglossia is a term, coined by the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bhaktin, in the literary spectrum to denote the juxtaposition of more than one discourse. I feel it quite personally in my mind where there is the “heavens and the earth colliding”. I know not what this illness is but there are voices inside my head, precisely two, quite eloquent in their declamation over a particular situation that calls for sensitivity and sensibility. Both with disparate judgements, one impregnates my mind with such vile thoughts, suspicion and paranoia; while the other voice fights for its life trying to reason out with ME, pleading me to ignore the former. It creates such conundrum and chaos, my palms involuntarily pressed against my ears to mute the deafening voices; limbs shaking, eyes tearing and my ears searing. The negative always potent and I g...