Against the Waves

Dr. Ram Krishna Singh 
(Indian Poet of Eminence)

Former Professor of English

IIT-ISM, Dhanbad

India

The crowded lift and emptiness of the flat

doesn't help me resurrect what's gone

late at night I may pile hopes on a pale paper

trying to invent a new life to live with

end up seized by pain trolling in the shady light

double bed, blank mirror, and still greyer dawn

the pillow hurts, the image derides, the prayers fail

the roaring inside, the ghostly silence

and unfading darkness. I'm no Odysseus

but keep straying against the waves.