Somali Mukherjee’s two poems


The Diurnal Discourse


The diurnal spotlight,

The rolling ripple

Plead to cease our daily fight;

We’re paltry people.


Were we born just to others defame?

Why do we make the simple cry?

Mankind seems to be only a name;

Our benefactors we do try.


The sun gifts us life and light;

Yet, we as if have to be ingrates;

Do we need peace or love to fight?

Our beastly entity reverberates.


Things positive we can rarely digest;

We are full, too full of inhumanity;

Immoral beings, our heads we do rest

On the bosom of heartless insanity.


Who can help us in this regard?

We never recognise the genuine gem;

The sun shines bright and tries too hard;

We, still, look for scopes for causing mayhem.

The Inevitable


Whenever I try to approach,

There does come a hindrance;

Riding on Destiny’s cruel coach,

I’ve forgotten joy; I can’t dance.


The complexities of this world

Intertwine me from every angle;

The innocents are in fire hurled;

They have to become nude shingle.


How long do we have to be

Singed like this as if in Limbo?

Allow not win Destiny;

We are poisoned, are never let to go.
 

I feel so asphyxiated

That I forget who I am;

When we feel exhilarated,

We never rue; we remain sham.


It’s our fault indeed, our defect

To treat all others unkindly;

One day, everything must reflect;

Light and murk we behold blindly.


Somali Mukherjee was born in 1993. From a very tender age, she fosters an unshakable passion to vent her thoughts and emotions in various ways, especially by penning down poems. Although she unburdens her head and heart by means of writing short stories, essays and such other creative pieces as well, she is an ardent lover of music and of fine arts. At present, she works as an author-cum-editor for a publication house in Kolkata, India. She has authored a few books till date, including
Head and Heart: A collection of poems, A Prosaic Omnibus, My Little World, An Album of Various Moments: An Anthology etc.

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