Horror of Lights | Probal Basak

The following poem by Probal Basak from Hooghly was selected as a commendable mention in Wingword Poetry Prize 2020

In a not so ordinary day

someone somewhere somehow

trumped up the plan

to wake the world up from

primitive darkness under its hood.

 

As the world woke up to lights,

too much lights around,

it craved for even more

like the colony of beetles

flies to the smoldering wood.

 

As our world continued its walk

into the horror of lights, the

addicted eyes lost eyesight one day,

and, the blind world laid an egg,

unlike the one the firebugs brood.