Indelible Afflictions

Silently I endure the unceasing pain driving me to bottomless hole

Nightmares darken and the days drown my soul

Rejected and dejected with perpetual anguish life is flawed

The vicious torments of yesterday impinging insomniac nights are clawed

A dismal existence among loved ones yet I shrink and withdraw

Betrayed and cheated by those in whose care I was entrusted

I ponder aghast how a gift so joyous and vulnerable could be destroyed

It had been welcomed with eager expectations and healthy gestation

Later to be abandoned and crushed beyond restoration

Oblivious and insensitive to my silent pleadings and mournful entreating

The wilting of childhood overcast by gloom

The withered and crushed spirit steeped in doom

For a citadel erected within with walls sternly guarded difficult to penetrate

It remains a host to deprivation humiliation and callous neglect impossible to obliterate

The permanence of wretchedness the hurting the gnawing deepening the insurgent wilderness

Reduced to a hapless endurance all bruised and scabbed an object repugnant and unsightly

With demeanour so grim and a vice like grip you sought unquestioned submission

Which severed all emotional chords with no chance of remission

Beyond childish comprehension unable to accept rejection

Implored for acceptance lonely and broken weary of dejection

A fledgling so raw with a unknown world to explore craved for acceptance

A lamb exposed to slaughter imploring deliverance

An act so unimaginable that a shepherd entrusted with a task so onerous

Could be so careless and irresponsible to wrought consequences so erroneous

To rear a dismal survivor on the brink of extinction

For an eternity is inadequate for restoration.

~By: Veena Umesh Sood~

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