Walk on

Resigned eyes,
Meet the assigned fate.
Numb veins pulsate suddenly,
With a source of the known.
Dragged and stretched beyond strains,
Burnt down to the ground
The elastic chord of being and feeling-
Find some life returning.
The vacant eyes peered in closer-
Squinting against the dazzling daylight,
With the blinders finally off-
The soul allows itself to be sold.
The wind screeches by,
A reflection of the hollowness within.
While the craggy footsteps,
Find their own path-
Away from the filter of rays.
Darkness is all that the mind seeks,
To burrow itself in -
A cocoon against the information overload.
The child holds her ears,
As she hears all over again
The hated words her brain re-tells.
She looks down with a wry amusement,
At the broken pearl shells -
The whites greyed and faded-
Serrated edges reflecting the words shattered.
Walk on is all she knows.
Away and afar-
From all that breaks.
Yet all shadows too remain sliced.
The reality seems to bleached to have a life.