Solitude

Shobha Diwakar

Rtd. Head Dept of English, C. P. Mahila Mahavidhyalaya, Jabalpur M.P.

Peaceful harmony
The longing to escape persists
Where the mind wanders
Into unknown zones of meditation
Twirling and whirling across barriers
Long erected into alleys … closed
Long…long… ago
Meandering, rising like waves in the ocean
Ebbing and flowing…
Striking against the beaches
Of lonesome splendor
Receding into the gulf of angry wails
Drowned in the silence of weighing hours

Of solitude.