Easing Out

April 5, 2018 by Usha Pisharody 4 Comments

Tickety-tock, clickety-clock

Clichés count the ways

To ease into familiarity.

Content, into comfort.

Except, one forgets, how

Familiarity leads to

The gentle ground

Of an easy contempt.

It’s perhaps the most oft narrated story.

The one of swampy marshlands

Sinking simple joys

Bleakness of dim lights of indifference

That no amount of pretence can relieve.

Are you stuck in one?

Tell me, do you want out?

Or has the darkness of that comfort

Become habit, and easing out

Is no longer worthy of your effort?

03 April, 2018, Day#5 of #NaPoWriMo, 2018