Contemporary Literary Review India | eISSN 2394-6075 | Vol 4, No 4: CLRI November 2017

Akshat Shukla

Dark Musings

Clotted thoughts,

And nocturnal scribbling

On austere, unfortunate pages

Stained with the blood of time;

Xeroxed musings of the past

Devastate the placidness

Symptomatic of the present;

The light that rubs its ink

On the blank pages of the mind

Is nothing but a prelude

To an incessant darkness.

Closure

Floating in the mist of horror,

I clutched at a dream of agony

Until the mist fizzled out, and nothingness

There was all over my wrenched, pale soul.

Never, ever there fell a drop of darkness

Where I desired a closure, and exposed

I stood always by the lightness of a little light.

The left, the right, the middle: I chose all,

And my brain metamorphosed into an enigma

Puzzling the very essence of my existence.

Akshat Shukla is a research scholar at CSJM University, Kanpur, UP. He is working on ecocriticism for his research thesis. Apart from research writing, he writes fiction and poetry. Most of his poems are philosophical musings and many of his stories deal with existential crisis as he is heavily influenced by western philosophy.

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