INSANITY

By Ananya Chatterjee

A smoldering blackness chokes my mind;

Fantasies, nightmares and memories entwined,

Crash towards an abyss, unnamed-

Face to face with my fears, untamed.

I try to weep, but all that eruptsis

Groan of laughter, hard and hoarse;

I try to explain but my speech is drowned

By a cacophony of garbled echoes…

I cling on to these iron bars..

In the hope of catching your final goodbye-

But all I see is a cloud of dust

That your wheels have gifted the virgin sky;

All those vows razed to earth-

I suddenly rejoice their downfall.

Despite what they say- Insanity,

Is quite an eye opener after all!

About the author: Poetess Ananya Chatterjee from Kolkata, India, is a bilingual poet and translator in English. She is the author of the title, ‘The Poet & His Valentine’, a collection of verses. Ananya also worked as a translator for the poems by Soumitra Chatterjee, published in the book ‘Forms Within’.