Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 10, No. 4: CLRI November 2023
Bhavya Prabhakar
The Curse of Silence
He entreated me to be silent
in this metaphor of rattrap
while silence has its own connotations
in my library of words,
where my plot has its own tragedy
teetering between what may happen or what may not,
abominating the hierarchy of thoughts
on the bookshelf, a moving shelf
in my library,
where different lives move and prove
on the written and absorbing pages,
writers lean upon each other peacefully
to have harmony with their school of thought,
forgetting the success and the failure
whereas in Matt Haig’s Library resides
infinite lives, dead or alive,
each book carries a life and a death,
cursing the pen of its silence
which reveals the climax at the end,
where life gainsays death
of my personage
beneath the gloss of physicality.