Outrage #O #AToZChallenege

Outrage

Of Modesty

Of freedom

Of liberty

Of innocence

Of beliefs

Of life

And then we create

a useless 

outrage of words

Forgiven

From the same tree born

From the same seed grown

One given all shade and nurtured

Other left to languish deserted

A shallow reason they had

You won’t carry our name, they said

That was an excuse so flimsy

They always were in the sway

Of partisan mindset and thought

That taught them to discriminate

Should they be forgiven again as ever?

And then perhaps be forgotten forever?

Smoulder

I once had fire in me, all had seen it
Yes it had made me aglow with hope

It had burnt in me, fueled my soul
to surge high, like a hot-air balloon

Then your love, my ultimate folly
smothered it down, put it out
My heart grew soft and green
A lovely bloom there bloomed

Your disdain re-kindled the smoulder
Like the earth I trembled and settled
time and again,from my unseen wounds
my blood lava flowed and spluttered

The fire still glows unseen
It now burns me within, my veins glow
It is vaulted in my core, I am volcanic
One day when it erupts and annihilates me

Don't act foolish and touch me

Presume that I am harmless still
My body though would be cold and white
still I know your fingers it will surely scald

Don't light my pyre, beware, I forbid you
It wont burn if you do, wont catch fire
Let my only flower do the onerous task
and let him blow my ashes into the air.

Love Is?

Its a verb they say

Its defunct I say, so

How can it denote action

It gives life they say

Its meaningless I say, so

How can it provide succour

Its nothing but a word

A word that maddens the world

A thing that destroys the self

On this day of love

I give up on the word, and 

I renounce the Idea

its a concept as unworthy

As the people who profess love

and don't value the being of another.