Culture & Society

The Last Bell | A Poem

Krishna, a young poet from Kerala, encapsulates the uncomfortable sensation of feeling stuck in an increasingly fast-paced world

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And I watched the last bus leave,

Thinking that's not mine.

Mine is yet to come..

But it's gone

Like the spring,

My life has gone 

and I stood by and watched.

I never carried a note,

To write it down.

I never caught anything thrown at me..

This is not for me,

This is not for me 

And in each miss 

I missed a piece of myself...

The perfectionist's ignorance.

He lost his last note.

Last hope.

Why am I still on this bench, Lord.

To remember!

To understand that the 

apple has fallen from the tree,

And I watched it roll down the valley 

Not moving a muscle about it. 

Is that it?

Is that it? 

How am I to redeem?

For my river flows with no water 

And for me no ocean.

How am I to redeem

a wasted life..

The lies of a holy cross awaits.

Like a crow's shadow.

A lie, indeed..

Anandhu Krishna is a poet, content writer and Uber driver living in Calicut. He has published a collection of poems in Malayalam. He also writes articles on contemporary affairs.