When Clemency Possesses You
Clemency, that
another skin
refuses to come
off, lives like that ghost
who lives rent-free in your body’s home
no matter how many
times you wash that
naked skin, it
seeps deeper like the fresh water
droplets, slowly
making their way beneath,
it stays for a long
like you are holding on to the
ghosts of your
past, peeking out more often
from inside your
heart, finding its way
to reach those you
wish to liberate from your mind.
It doesn’t stop
there. What if you have to live
with it your whole
life? Clemency becomes the garment,
of soul, you are
not able to take it off
it sits on you to
cover your body from all those
unwanted ghouls
you carry in your head
trying to come out
through your mouth
they will sit there,
silently for as long you allow
trying to overcome,
to come out, but will you
let them take over?
Let clemency flow out of you
but you are not
ready! Not yet, how can it be easy
enough to be given?
Let it melt from you like
honey and not amber.
But you are not ready yet!
It’s a ghost, it
can’t leave you any sooner,
knowing you have
become comfortable living with it
than the world
that lives around you.
It’s a balm to
your soul to hold grudges now
all the time, awake
or asleep,
feels more like
home, having two faces,
the evil that
stays inside, and the kindness that speaks!
Are you becoming the
saint or the sinner
for your soul? Petting
a ghost wasn’t your game, but you
have learnt the
art, clemency now possesses your entire being…
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