Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Prowler


Why do they associate me with the Shadows,

Why is it that I am always in the darkness,

Why are the names of mine in sorrow,

Where I stay, hope itself deserts the palace.


I am that which is there when uncertainty exists,

I am that which stays with you from the very beginning,

I am that which contains the un-numbered list,

The very heart of soul, I consume like the eternal void.


You are wrong, I attack in the broad daylight,

I come out in the open, you just close your eyes,

I am that which gives you sleepless nights,

I am the king of the harbingers that void the soul.


Slow I come, so slowly toward you.

Slow you see my approach, if you ever do,

It is my firm grasp that you ever rue,

I am the reason that your wings are clipped.


I am that which blinds you to happy moves,

In the endless plunge, I pull you towards doom,

The fight against me is the hardest you do,

Not all emerge victorious, most fall to gloom.


In many shapes and forms, do I come,

Blind you to the obvious, make you oblivious,

Reason and joy I snatch, making you glum,

That death itself is my lieutenant, the lesser of the evils.


I am the breaker of strong and stronger wills,

I tax your lives, a burden on the life and soul,

I am inevitable, the reason of life that chills,

Yet I am the unknown, the uncertainty of time.


I am the wrath of time, the rage of an age,

I bring all down, man and creation,  a final fury,

I am the ambiguity, the inevitability and the cage,

I am the tallest mountain on your path.


I am formed yet formless, reasoned yet reasonless,

I am invisible yet visible, unheard yet heard.

I am the fairest of all, I am partisanless,

I am the cruelest of all, for all good you have I take.


Fight me, fight me and fight hard till you win,

Know, the hardest and longest battle of life, I shall be,

Slain me, joy, happiness and reason you shall gain,

I am the door to life, and the reason for life.


Fear me, for I am fear itself.



                                                                            ~Shashank  G

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