words..

I don’t read nowadays..

The alphabets ,
which were so familiar to my eyes,
and close to my heart,
now seems like figures to me,
meaningless,
symbols drawn by egyptian mummies,
or primitive cavemen ..

The letters now don’t remain,
confined to a straight line,
as they used to be,
and as they are supposed to be,
in accordance with my conditioned concepts..

Instead,
they twist,bend and sway,
creep under my nerves,
making ugly faces mostly,
with grotesque expressions,
invisible in dictionaries,
of accepted norms,
and scares me,
as ghosts,
crawling around in shadowy nights..

They don’t form words anymore,
lovely and magical,
beautiful and poised,
which I used to cherish,
and fulfil my soul

Instead ,
they tremble and grumple,
growl and hiss,
Sometimes shatter
With thunderous sounds,
break in to black and white fragments,
with blacks engulfing the whites..

They don’t make any sentences ,
with sense any more,
as the poetry and grace in them,
evaporated from their core..

They are now weakened,
losing the bonds between them,
unable to stick together,
and make meanings of small words,
of love and trust ,
of respect and tolerance,
in the vast book of world,
open , before my reddened eyes..
Instead ,
They scream on my face always
“ go ,get lost ..you illiterate”