When death arrives… the trial begins…

a poem by Venkatesh Parthasarathy

Locked inside my self, lie endless worlds
states of anarchy and discipline
each world in its own castle
opening up their doors each day
one by one
releasing all its citizens onto the
voidless space
watching over them is my self,
the one god
who’d send them to hell or heaven
when my self works itself to complete silence
the death judge arrives on the judgement day…