Linear Shift

Lines and dots

are matters of perspective;

Storms can be liberating

and peace deceptive;

With harsh words,

love can sometimes be expressed;

And with gentle creativeness, 

worlds can be destroyed:

It takes a word

by something powerful

to cause fires:

Bodies walk across bridges

looking relentlessly forward with vacant eyes,

yearning for something familiar,

yearning for something

to call their own:

A home (even a make-shift one),

a place to rest.

Bloodshot eyes,

gaze ahead,

quite drained of tears

from years of cumulative agony:

Safely trapped in prisons of love

© Geetakshi Arora

January 27, 2014