PHOSPHORUS TIPPED STICK

Within no time you are engulfed,

Your mouth spits out a curse word,

You are blinded in an instant,

You grope, nearest solid feel is now so distant,

You imagine something move around,

Your heart skips a beat, the synapse fires,

“Oh! It’s a cigarette butt on the ground”

I become bit lenient now on,

I allow those minuscule photons,

Your retina takes the battering,

You gradually can differentiate the surrounding,

You think where was the flashlight?

Only if you kept it in the place assigned,

You feel for the matchbox on the kitchen shelf,

You hear a choked scream, it’s yourself,

“Oh! It’s still hot, the frying pan.”

Friction of the match, your anticipation,

Phosphorus tipped stick, great invention,

You watch as the flame takes form,

Looking for thread in wax, your next norm,

The thread is lit, the stick of no use,

Flame on thread flickers, one verbal abuse,

Your un-destined tryst with me,

Only momentary,

Is uncomfortable? I muse.

I pity you, your need for light,

I fear those without a sight,

I am belittled against their might,

Zillions of lenient photons, nothing’s bright,

You look at them with mercy, you are so blind,

Their rainbows is more colourful, in their mind,

Had they had your vision, and seen your world,

Only miseries would be bestowed to those eyes.

There is nothing as “love at first Sight”,

For them it’s just love, day or night,

Do not pity, thinking for their plight,

You have eyes, see the bigger picture,

I engulf all of your starry night…

This is about darkness. Darkness mocks at the people who have sight; a momentary darkness due to power failure makes them uncomfortable. It says, it is afraid of beings that lack vision and feels happy for them, because if they had eyes, they could have seen all the miseries and sufferings the so called normal people undergo. In the end, darkness re-asserts its dominance stating that the entire universe is engulfed by it, meaning that come out of your worldly pleasures and see billions are still suffering. Sight here refers to all the seemingly “important” (materialistic) things; darkness refers to all the wrong doings of man.