likeliness between an asteroid falling into the sun and sleep paralysi – Delhi Poetry Slam

likeliness between an asteroid falling into the sun and sleep paralysis

By Prateek Joshi

Listen!
My arms
are tense,
legs weak. I am
a mirage
on a stranger's watch,
an event horizon
crucified in the dark,
a quicksand of time,
struck on an asteroid

How would you conceive of love?

A walk
between birth and death
is a spiral
in this rogue storm
gnawing away
at the existence
of a wobbling planet
drifting away, slowly
into space

Imagine! Two breaths
into a rally
in and out,
a long way from home
nowhere to go

"You have ceased to be."

An emptiness repeats
"What if i forget
who i am.
Will i ever be myself
again...?"


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