Canker

Canker

I'm in the middle of a river
And I'm trying to swim upstream
I m in a flash flood of motion
I am in a moment of dream

The current is carrying my body
My mind wants to flow upstream
The current is stronger than spirit
My soul gently intervenes

My soul says to float with the body
My soul says to go with the flow
My soul says even to nowhere
God's created a path, so go.

Paved with love and intentions
Paved with the passage of time
The bed of the river feels cold so
I want to sink into the muddied slime

Give my heart a break lord
Keep me from going insane
Take my heart and mould it
It knows not how to feign

Lord give me a plastic heart
An unicameral techie brain
Love is not an anecdote
To a lifetime of pain.

I am sinking in a fast flowing river
I am starting to feel again
How happily sheds flower its petals
When attacked by gentle rain

I am falling in love with this nowhere
Iam falling in love with now-here,
I am passing by streams of emotions
Bypassing all pain all fear.

I am in the search of fresh waters
I am parsing the chimera of soul
The sound of silent sunburst
Over skyful of clouded gold.

In this merrymaking this heartbreaking this joyful seeking
I am seared amazed by my search
For a life that's right by my side...
Swinging to the tune I'm faking...
A life in the palm of my eyes.

A joyride isn't a journey
The fortune teller misread or
Lied.
A life that hides
In plain sight...a true story
Not a tale from the twelfth Night.

Blind love set my stony sight
The worm in the apple chewed delight
And rot and canker is my keep
If I allow stone eyes to weep.

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(c) Amrita Valan 2014