Beauty in the Dark
Rashmi Elangbam *
Why does the sky look pretty when I'm upset ?
Why does it sparkle in the darkness all alone ?
Like glitter it shines
Like a pattern it makes
an unknown picture of things
Things that never once I cared
Things that seems to bring a smile
on this exhausted face
It seems like yesterday
It seems like now
that I once saw
beauty in the dark
It smiled and gave a laugh and
brought angels from the heavenly paradise
The angels too on my presence
sang to me as I sleep
But as I woke up
It was all just but a dream
And as I closed my eyes I remembered
how the selfless angels' song
brushed away my sorrows
and never again I once saw
beauty in the dark
* Poem written by Rashmi Elangbam for The Sangai Express
This poem was webcasted on 22 February 2020.
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