Eluding Peace

When we cannot keep pace with peace it feels absurd

Calamitous dreams flow like the unknown rivers of the netherworld

That warm feeling of drowning the self in the desirous current

There could be an uprising of a wintry feel- the self-contradiction

Frozen time stabs threateningly like a thousand steely knives 

Stalactite thoughts claim to subdue the mind with fierceness

When shadows become bigger than the original, it haunts

The veil of promises that are unreal are of melancholic hues

~Amitav