Fear – Poetry from Assam

Staying alive means assimilating at a corner of the melee, still a miserable fear nibbles continually

Guna Moran

Guna Moran is a poet and critic based in Sivasagar, Assam, India. His poems have been published in more than 100 international magazines, journals, webzines, blogs, newspapers, anthologies and have been translated into 30 languages around the world including Croatian, Tagalog (Philippines), Burmese, Swahili (Kenya), Indonesian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chines, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish and Indian Language Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Gujrati, Arabic and Bengali. He has won several literary awards that include Literary Lieutenant Award 2019 by Story Mirror, India Star Passion Award 2019 and Creator of Justice Award 2020 by International Human Rights Art Festival. His published books are ‘Biswakhar Bananikaran’, Assamese Poetry book (Afforestation of faith), ‘When the Tree Weeps’ (English Poetry translation), and ‘El Amor: Love on the Rocks’ (Series – Book 1). Another four books would soon be published. Guna Moran can be reached at email – gunagelakey85@gmail.com

FEAR

The abode of

The whale

Is underwater

Whether

Someone notices or not

Water is their only means of life

Still

When an unknown fear

Singes the heart deeply

Tearing through the water

Surfacing once suddenly

It disappears into its depths

Staying alive means

Assimilating at a corner of the melee

Still

A miserable fear nibbles

Continually

As if

Would get lost

Right at this moment

And

Become inevitable

To prove the presence

 MIRROR

 One Image

Two persons

Both the persons appear clearly

So I do not even look

Decks up to make the appearance praiseworthy

Feel good when people say it’s good

At that very moment

The inner person shines up

Feel like shattering the mirror to pieces

It is for this only

That my inner self is exposed

Everyone can be angry at everyone

Everyone cannot be angry with oneself

Everyone can try to dupe everyone

Everyone cannot dupe oneself

The day broke the mirror

The lightened mind was wafting like cotton

Today as I perceive my reflection in water

I get angry with water

Oh! Can’t cover the reflection anywhere

Shook up the water in anger

My image was lost instantly

The wild character started

Hopping up again

A passerby was watching my antics with a smile

I asked him the cause of the smile

He did not say anything

But handed me a slip of paper

I read to understand

My face in the mirror

Yours in mine

Can read the heart

By reading the face

THAT GAZE

The nature got impregnated

As the Sun looked with that gaze

 The shy earth turned full of life

 The same gaze

Was bestowed as a gift

To

Adam and Eve

By the Sun

They too

Retained the gift

For their descendants

It is also the trigger

Of the union

Between you and me

Sweetheart

But the gaze is

Quite dangerous

It makes home

For many

And

Breaks home

Too!

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