Something
By- Dr Nunglekpam Premi Devi Independent Scholar
‘No actions stand worthy handling; No actions dignitaries speak worth good on how I act; Perceiving not a feeling on ‘how ‘to perform; Accomplishing not a single gesture stunt ‘m still still; Walking through this soiled narrow lane; Lonely, secluding and isolating; Concealing and sheltering something’ invisible, ‘Something’ forbidden and sacred steps; Veiling path ‘Living’ what humans call? Blind and unfolding ‘Living’ an empty platform; Swinging along hither and thither- addressing something; Finding not a poll to hold on? Each waylay dark dim and with no clues; Searching for ‘something’ hard to escape; Trapped and surrounded and enclosing, Confirming and imprisoning and alluring; Something’s cheating and tricky practical.
Ah! What an uplifting, boosting and racing? Arguing and augmenting within; Decreasing and reducing and something’ declining; ‘Something’ is false wholesomely, ‘Something’s irritating unhealthy and untruth; Innocence unseen, modesty naïve; Chastity pain, virginity an error sinful; Pristine wreckage; truth a lie; Privilege corruption; freedom a charging; Sexual a tool heaven; maiden a bore definition; Smiles a naked false, loyal a hell; Faithful a crime, corrupting a powerful weapon; Something’s sexy, something’s pride, Something’s incorrect, something’s fabulous; Something’s driving force, something’s developing; Something’s an essence, something’s logic; Something’s degrading, something’s spoiling; ‘I’ mythical, ‘you’ traitorous; Healthy unreliable, wealthy legendary heroic; Traditional a choice and fictitious account; Something’s cheating and tricky practical.
Something’s misplacing, something’s violence; Something’s displacing, something’s unfriendly; No brothers embrace, No sisters’ goodwill; No neighbors recall hospitality but hostility, No flowers nurture, no plants watered; No friends wished good fortunes but hatred; Something’s vanishing, something’s consuming; Something’s hidden, something’s attacking; Priding ‘Hi’ ‘Hello’, damaging ‘ego’ factual; Something’s rude, something’s calculating; ‘Drugs’ a life, ‘drinks’ an amusement necessity; ‘Women’ pride of life, ‘money’s love; ‘Sickness’ a welfare, ‘death a granting wish; ‘Killing’ a game, ‘raping’ a winner; ‘Rich’ a demon royal, ‘inspiring’ a cheater; Something’s longing, something’s yearning; Something’s inclining, something’s hankering; Conflicting and treating, concurring and protocol ling; No peace a truce, No ideas a genuine brotherly; ‘My’ ‘Me’ ‘Your’ ‘You’ ‘Their’ ‘His’ ‘Her’ an anthem; No woman a mother, no man a father; No calmness a compose, No noise a peace; Something’s cheating and tricky practical. |