Poems by Jaya Ghosh

The end of a night

The day begins

Is that what you call hope?

A ray after the darkness

A life after death…

Oh! To stop the tears and just hope

Do the smiles give you happiness

Or is it just the happiness

That makes you smile?

Walking for life

Or flying a mile?

Oh! To stop the tears and just smile

Looking at emptiness and seeing everything

Looking at faces and knowing nothing

Is that why you have eyes to see?

Every silent smile

Every loud tear

Oh! To close your eyes and just see

To soar high

With or without that vision

Is that what you call dream?

For all that’s alive

Or all that stands on the edge

Oh! To stop the tears and just dream

To by heart every word in that book

To not tread that path to the impossible

Is that why you need things to know?

Every word that you have not defined

Every feeling that you have not felt

Oh! To just open your mind and know

Heaving that sigh of relief

Or just choking to death

Is that why you breathe?

Every breath that comes to you

Or every one that you fight for

Oh! To just stop drowning and breathe

Knowing what not to do

And not knowing what to

Is that why you live?

To count your steps everywhere you go

Or to just let yourself walk into nothing!

Oh! To stop what stops you and just live

A strange abyss

Fills this heart

Fills it up to the brim

Fills it up but it doesn’t hurt

There are no feelings left

In any corner, any bit

Left there to be ignored

Left standing on its feet

Don’t know how the tomorrow will come

Don’t know how the yesterday passed by

Not that I didn’t want to

Not that I didn’t give it a try

Filled with emptiness

My soul’s searching for a way

In the vastness of this world

Searching for that hope, that one ray

Feelings lose their way in the crowd

Words lose their say in silent tears

Sometimes miles don’t take you anywhere

Sometimes you don’t know how to laugh at your fears

Life moves on

You can’t just hold on to one pain in your heart

Or it fills up your whole life

Fills it up and yet it doesn’t hurt….

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