New Dawn

Of late, I have learnt to rise
From the bed of languid hopes

Early to sniff at the crimson dawn

That has just begun to lavish

On me the indefatigable joys of being.

Just now I have started putting on

New shoes that bites me delicately

But I don’t bother, I am not scared,

My new rendezvous with life has

Taught me to forget the poison

Fruits of familiar trees, the vile

Canker now cannot touch my feet

Nor the slush of affluent weeds

Can transfix me on unpaved roads,

I’ll wipe off memories of horrible lure

And create my own memories in the

New space making my short life’s

Long span my identity.

I'll make my moments long
Eternities of dreaming truth
Which my years have snatched away
In empty beats of hollow melodies,
Played by hands that rooted me
To a worldly sense of security.

I greet my new dawns with new songs
The late opened litanies of joy. 

Sabita Sahu