soothing star- Snehasri Ravishankar

My legs give out

and I sink

onto the grassy blanket,

whose thorns feel like velvet

against parched skin.

I close my eyes and

d

r

i

f

t

away..

from this cruel confinement

where fleeting time waits for none.

I am drawn awake.

It’s that feeling all over again.

It allays my ears,

casting away the shrieks and screams

that haunt them.

This is the muse the world needs.

Melodies and lyrics are stars

to its a

b

y

s

s.

The music bewitches,

I tiptoe on notes

dancing in octaves.

I call the tune ~ I shall stay here

until the music dies.

For in the mansion beside my run-down hut,

they begin

to blow the trumpet.