Everything so Hollow

Everything so hollow
Such an overflow of sound
Everyone so merry
Smiley bandages
On wounds.

One heart of mine says
Braver be
Brace yourself
Enjoy thus
Whatever may come
Just let it be.

And one part of me
Breaks
Each piece more beautiful
Than any poem
I have written
Like a hopeless mirror
it gazes, piercing my soul's
Mazes,
Shards of sanity
Abandoning futility.

And the sigh
Would break
Your empty room.

So let me bow out
With my heart
Of gloom.

See me
A happy profile
In happening times,
My feet are skimming, dead
Weight of collapsed tears.

Flooded floors.

I shall not escape.
Let me
Close the door.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016