RESEARCH SCHOLAR
SAMAL SARBESWAR
Locked in self-exile
and the barricade
of loneliness
he hums
the sad old
tune of life.
injuring his bleary
sickly eyes
and rummaging
his homo-sapien skull
he pours over
a vast disconcerting land
looking for a new horizon
that will at once stun
and illumine the world.
But everything blurs
and diffuses
in the desert of
distraction
only despair gathers
like bubbles of
black blood
in the bargain of
light and enlightment.
yet, while stumbling
through rugged paths
and writhing as Sissypus
he hopes to crown
his impoverished life
that continually negates
and belies everything.