Clouds

a poem by Feroze Varun Gandhi

Searching myself as an innocent
Demand, sucking forth
Beyond the hum of desperation
Awaiting the steps
To block out the sun
It is your cry
By the shore
Scented-
Of the past
Of redundance
The sea is like two sounds
Smashed together
Prescient
Like the strangeness of beauty
In a world muted by distance
Discounted dreams as masochism
There are some who wake assassins
And others discounted by a nascent liberty
Staring at clouds from both sides.