Faith and life | Nishtha Mathur

O to rise from pits of thraldom

Into the blaze of royal delight

From waning faith to deity’s flame

I sit on thrones and melt as ice

For destroyed I must be

Nevermind the path I choose

And lay I must, amongst rotten souls

The illusion of freedom didn’t last long

I fell as light-bringers; idealism over flaws

And sat weeping in a prison of religions

Hunched over by the weight of God.

People called my thoughts riddles

And the pain I suffered poet’s dream.

I still promise the same holy loyalty

To the being who no longer listens to me

But a new moon will rise

And the darkness will be called mine

I shall never shun the bond of love

Yet accept Pain as a mutual friend of Time.