First Defeat | Swati Tiwari

THE FOLLOWING POEM WAS SELECTED IN WINGWORD POETRY PRIZE 2023 LONGLIST.

except all the silence and smile

obsessed in defeat and attempt

devoid of sorrow and sympathy

saturated with criticism ,contempt

disillusionment with mirage

Lost string in musical vague

Fuel mixed with tears of broken dreams

The pulsation of burning life.

On the narrow altar of struggle's fire

Sacrifice suffers with strive.

Building the business of reality

embezzling dream's loan of duality

pick raw threads of hope

how to bind destiny's rope

What special i have after fullest fading of fabulous faith.

Is there any thing left of the traveller exiled from every path?

Two eyes as the waking firefly

In dark night under the blank sky

Where comedy of tragedies is part of pain's celebration

Now life is standing here, a little closer to consolation

Standing in the maze of the Mahabharata of the furious feelings,

Every time adamant, every time fighting and every time sailing.

soaking paper with ink

Is it acceptable as cry?

Words question the pen's

Every what and why

essence of zero and whole of everything

expansion of the existence and beginning

words are unspoken behind the silence

Undefined Crys in smile's demilance

Writing victory over defeats

or lament the rebellion

Sympathies are not acceptable

How to count doubts billion

like paper's money or the scrap inurn

We have learned from life to be stubborn