Forgiveness

25th April, '09

A searing hole burning through crystal pools,
the heat of it traversing each droplet within,
deeper and deeper till it finds home,
till eventually one turns to stone,
the mind is filled with cackling din,
and insanity is all that rules.

Reason is not in sight anymore,
wrapped up in the hatred of prejudice,
coils and coils of sticky thought,
large swirling pools with presumption fraught,
I blink to see the ghastly edifice,
towering at my mind's door.

There's a snap and a clink, a tear and a blink,
and clouds start clearing one at a time,
the edifice is disappearing each minute,
crumbling into nothing bit by bit,
trickles of water clearing up the slime,
the mind stretches and begins to think.

Slowly creeps in a ray of light,
the load is less heavy, the shackles break free,
the passages are cleared to move ahead again,
there's space for two once more in this den,
a song breaks through all the cacophony,
and two minds move to a new height.