In the silent place in my mind –
you don’t exist
your narrow, four-lined
square, boxed
suffocating point of view
does not exist
your inability to comprehend
any world beyond that
does not exist
your funny little
self-righteous speeches
from there
don’t exist
your rigid rules
ofshoulds and should nots
don’t exist
your presumptuous
misnomer
as grandeur
your pomposity
does not exist
your crooked sadistic jokes
that thankfully
I don’t get
don’t exist
your unquenchable wrath
at my freed soul
flying high…….high!!!
and your helpless inability to control
me
does not exist
‘Cause in that little space in my mind
is a laugh
of unbridled mirth
at your childish
and futile efforts
to chase shadows
and try to conquer
the UNCONQUERABLE.
*This poem was a spontaneous outburst against some autocratic behavior in a corporate set-up. It’s true that we operate within rules, but sometimes there’s this inability to accept any other viewpoint that can be quite frustrating.
BIO
Glory Sasikala is a poet and writer currently residing in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of the Monthly Online Prose and Poetry magazine, ‘GloMag’ and is the administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is a language editor and quality analyst by profession.
