Showing posts with label Anik Chakrabarti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anik Chakrabarti. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 August 2019

Poetry 2019 Featured Poet, Anik Chakrabarti

Schizophrenia

Fade
Away-
Oh bright ray.
To you I might be-
Insane, a ghost trapped in the past.
Caustic in nature, agoraphobic in the heart.
No room for you, in my small world.
Days night, the night light.
Invader-
Begone!
You.

Shade-
Morbid.
Wife and child-
Left home bit ago.
Null and void, I shout out their names.
In many different shades of hue, the blank walls glow.
Futile to you- but not for me.
My world's filled with peace.
Unlike yours-
Corrupt,
Lies.

So
Don't you ever try to change me-
You'd never understand.
My disease is an ease-
To scrub the scars off my hand...

They forced rehabilitation-
Current shocks, pills - medication.
All just to raise the "Sane"-
Citizen of your nation.

But
Why should they take my freedom
and throw it to the stands?
Try hard- the way you like-
Won't bow to your demands.

I may not fit into your world of delusions.
Let me create my world- of dreams and illusions.
Don't you dare judge me and
Don't you sympathize.
Lose those loved in a car wreck-
You would realise...