Air of Fear

Air of Fear

This is the room
where I breathed
the air of fear,
for the first time.

I scrabbled
through
the yellow pages
of centuries
just to find that elixir
that might wake him
up from dead/ deep sleep.

I reached to the men
& women of expertise
to do something
to give something
to do anything
that might wake him
up from dead/ deep sleep.

Long at nights
I gazed at sky
and prayed.

I prayed.
I fasted.

I read.
I wrote.

I prayed again.
but, I prayed with a dark hope.
Afterall, he slept
dead and deep.

And the more I tried
to fasten him
to this world,
the more he was pierced
to slip quicker
into the other.

I lost it all.
(I lost it.)

I had just found it all.
I just had it all.

And then, I just…
lost itmuch before
then, it happened

Right here
Right in this room
the minute
I breathed the air
of fear
for the first time.

Prerna Gupta

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