Shackles



Shackles

            Shakil Ahmed

I am tired and exhausted with the burden of futile life
Loosing the spontaneous rhythm and jest of queer life
Every moment I am tumbling down into the sleepy terrain
Out of fear I close my eyes and try to relax for a while
My body aches painfully traversing the distances
Like a shameless, I try to reconcile with my fragile life
Thorns of life adhered to my feeble feet
I bear the venomous pain with a smiling face

When drops of blood trickle from glaring wound
I just step down to weave a mirage of fallacy
I perceive an invisible splendour strengthening my tortured mind
I hold my pen to indite a poem of sheer defeat
Painting with exotic colours of stress and worry
No one knows my pain, feels the burden of grief and sorrow
Slowly I lose myself into the realm of melancholic verses
And I accept my shocking debacle like a defeated soldier

I long for a divine voice in my real dreams
Million uncanny dreams float in the sky of distant horizon
Leaving lessons of life in a jargon replete with poetic beauty
Renewing myself like drops of dew dancing on the edge of grass
It is like a lesson of self- discovery from the bottom of a darkened pit
It is like an ultimate detour from the world of broken dreams
I am destined to fall like a flickering firefly
Only to know that I am bound by secret shackles.

About this poem

This is a poem based on real life experience. It is a big challenge for the humanity to face the challenges that try to shatter our life.

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Written on October 11, 2022

Submitted by shakil40730 on November 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AAXXBACX XDXCDXBX EXDXXEXX
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,343
Words 254
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

Shakil Ahmed

Mr. Shakil Ahmed was born in 1969 at Badarpur in Assam, India. He received his Master's degree in English literature from Assam University , Silchar, Assam. He started his professional life as an Assistant professor of English. Since his boyhood he was an ardent lover of literature especially of poems. Mr Ahmed's creative World is aesthetic with philosophical aspects being pregnant with both mundane and universal perspectives. Among his published works "Whispering Words" Is notable. "Rhythm", a collaborative work with Sankar Sarkar, is full with philosophical views of life."Echo of Love", a collaborative work with Lalita G.Garcia the H.O.D of English at Taguig City University, Phillippine, is a spectacular anthology, replete with jubilation of romantic love. His latest Anthology ' Journey Together, Cross Border Poetry is a collaborative work with Shakil Kalam, a reputed poet of Bangladesh. Prof. Shakil Ahmed has published more than 200 poems in Poem Hunter.Com. His poems have been published in many international Anthologies, journals and literary magazines. Mention may be made of ' Bridge ' an anthology of poems of the poets of East and West. In this anthology of East and West five of his poems have been published.Shakil's five number of poems have been published in ' Immortal Inking ', an anthology of poems published by Papermint books. His poems have been published in many other Anthologies of East and West. In many of his poems art has grown deeper and it has become religious and philosophical. The futility of this banal world is painted in many of his poems, revealing to the reader the existence of an invisible eternal world. While in some others, death is visualised as an inevitable one, which everyone has to face, and his helplessness is exposed. He is found contend to discover the soul and surrender himself to it's spontaneity. Whatever we have jarring to the senses and dissonant in our mortal life, in his superb portrayal melts into one sweet harmony and our adoration spreads wings like a joyous bird on its flight over the hills and dales. more…

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