LOCKED WITHIN

Shiv Shankar Singh Thakur

LOCKED WITHIN

The roads are lonely now

Treading on the way,

There is no traveler, aye

The world itself seems

Lifeless; there's no activity. Locked within the indoors Amidst emotions unbound Things are worsening, ah!

Feelings rising in the heart, Emotions swelling within Feet tightened with fetters Of helplessness infinite;

Time is ticking away, staying Inside the heated delirium Aggrieved with laceration, as No healing comes; the injury

Sticks on in the life of people Astounded with wordless mouth Mesmerized my mind is, aye To see the way things are!