La Defi by Priyanka Banerjee

La Defi

Light years remember the moments of deepest silence when waves
retreated and raindrops squeezed out flames of fire
from the century’s blue breast.
Perennial unrest petrified shadows of rest.
Outburst of slogans from the veins of shadows mesmerized
the wanderers who are still clinging to the heart of earth,
robbed bodies of lost trust.
La Defi!
Millions of years protest against the nights of aloofness
tears of death.
The uncanny saga of torrential rain perturb us.
Splits of soul and curves of bodies defy tortured,
gloomy tales of massacre –
Deepest breath caresses frozen lips of trust.
Power’s mad dance;
the centre with its tentacles fade away into trance.
Let me fall in love with you again when the stars will vanish away
and God will bless us with the thorny path of unrest,
traumatized protest!
Betrayed breath of black sharks stir up the eagle’s wings of fire –
La Defi!