A Dark Noon (Theme: Grief & Despair)

Inner grief and outer despair aren’t the same,

To exhibit despair in the public eye is an excuse for lame

Failure and loss are the ways we call grief’s name

Stretch out a hand, gentlemanly, to a distressed dame.

We grieve due to personal bereavement –

We despair when darkness falls across the firmament,

All ye! Come out of dark emotions and fill with astonishment

Others, who’ve relegated you to banishment.

Failure and grief become companions with age,

Feel them vanish with a book’s turning page,

Birds feel the same when bound in a cage

Because their homes lie hidden in a tree’s foliage.

Despair not when you stumble upon grief,

For it is inevitable in life – yes, it’s a belief;

Even nature cries in human distress, in a way brief

Midsummer rain is nature’s tears that bring us relief.

There’s more to heaven and earth than meets the naked eye,

Personal grief and human despair are like a dark colour of the dye,

Which makes others exclaim, “Oh! My!”

They are the evil-doers, from us they are forever shy.