Sands of Eternal Decay- Ashneet Kaur

Barehanded,

I scratch out the sands

Of the dying desert

Of eternal decay.

For the note left for me

Written in water,

Has seeped its way down.

Deeper it goes, still.

Sinking,

Into the deluge of dreams, they serenaded Soul.

Here,

My longings linger on,

Persevering,

In a garden of thorns.

Suffocated,

Beneath the surface of the Self;

Under the ever-piling pressure

Of perpetual metamorphosis.

Onwards it goes, still.

Still,

I believe

That I do not know myself.

I know

That I believe in nothing.

In the cradle of this knowledge,

Sleeps my Humanity.

Embraced does my ignorance stay

In the arms of the loving Mother.

And

In the knowing of the little,

I am learned.

Often,

When the eyelids of reality

Are heavy with the slumber of hope,

In the soft stillness of my being,

I am saved.