Soulcage

Why to confine you more?

It has lasted for moments

And hours, for days and years

Justice never meted 

Reasons never assigned

Purpose never had mission

The learned raven goes on

Chanting the sacred name

Knowing neither ends of the tale

The path has too many bends

Shrouded by mist, 

Pebbles are nostalgic

Inert is the cage

Passion does no more bind you

Find you behind those bloody veins

Why to confine you more?

They move from space to space

Delight flourishes in flight

Burn the wings of wishes

The ashes shall have no remorse

Between cells, why to shuttle in and out?

The divine gift lies unconscious

In forlorn corner of sky

The golden moon weeps 

Her face loses shine in the wane

Still shining? Still revolving in 

A passion to come closer one night?

The celestial flight leaves a signature

Upon the universe; who knows how

Shall it make me bankrupt soon?

Is it securing a place on the page

Or a dot is just a dot—an aberration

Of thought or pursuit of some dream

Suddenly interrupted by an exclamation?

Why to confine you more?

The night is living

So is the day

Alive is the worm or the rose

The faint broom of light 

Reminds that the dying comet is still alive

Alive is the sun

Burning till the end

A dwarf shall be dark and heavy

With void attracting 

Devouring all in a moment

Will it confine you too

As I do now?

Will there be justice

That you deserve

The liberty that you seek for?

How does it matter for me?

I have only loved you

Encaged, chained to a distant dream

Lying naked, abandoned

I love to see you there

I envy your purity

Like then, I used to hold you close

Loving, caring, like a bud of a rose

It is all a forgotten tale

There is nothing left but the wings

Heavy, unable to flutter it more

I love lying motionless beside you

Folded those wretched wings

I love seeing them idle

Never wished to fly

I love seeing them confined

Purposelessly honouring my company

As you do, unloved in the cage

Only it pricks so often

Why to confine you more?