Not Amusing

Amusements are not amusing anymore

Slightest hope to escape the revelry thwarted

By the unknown hands that surround like apparitions

Outlandish illusions form a kind of reality

Beliefs based on their premises

The rock-hard pillows, heavy mind, interrupted sleep

Dreams and their fragments- only a few scattered

Abandoned here and there and trampled

Unapologetic feet desecrate the coveted territories

Dug up, the terrible times, regenerate troubles

~Amitav