TRAP!!!!

Given the senses

to see, smell, hear

taste and feel

One grows up

Embryo once;

learns to crawl

and to fall

Traits gets boned

Along with the flesh,                                 
To cringe the eyes;                             

Seal the real

Terrain of the paranoid

Ears deafened to

Overlook and avoid

Odour goes foul;

In robes of pleasing egos

Ignoring the emanations

Of humanity

Touch becomes

a hidden desire

to suffice depraved mind

Tongue perils

Crucifies the verity

Curbing the fossils

Continual Obituary

Laughing at the epitaph

Of Morals

Construing them as a folly

Survival-of –the- cunning

At that one moment

Is thumb rule for all

Mimic the winner

Walk the flock

Of blind sheep

Goal the delusion

Lesson the other

On the lower ladder

With Piece of

Self-praised “wisdom”

Accumulated in the blood

Now as impurity

Death then knocks

As a cleanser of cloaks

Unlocks the soul

From the bondage

Of falsehood

At Aghast,

Final Pulse understood

Growth was a trap

                                        

© Juhi Gupte