Saturday, 4 October 2025

The tethered shore

 

The adrift soul arrives with timid pensiveness

On vexed realms of the tethered shore

Fettered with a little leash and tormented

Tormented to acute agony without any respite

The waves writhe amidst a confounding choice

Whether the pain aggravates with strife to break free

Or to surrender to the intolerable affliction

The noose that binds the vessel to the shore is truncated

While the tides it smothers are rather massive

The calf that gives up in infancy grows strapped

Immersed in such thoughts my vessel nears the sand

Fathoming the burden of a buoyant voyage

The damp embers bask in the rubicund dawn

While the crackling pyre springs up to complete the tale

Like the ttwilight of an unending gory dusk

Everytime the sky turns red the mind tries to define

What distinguishes the first sight or the last sigh

Of a scorching vagabond day on a tethered shore

Rishikesh

2316

01.27 hrs

5.10.25


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