Despair Displaced

Hopelessness, like krait betwixt stones, creep into heart, Confusion, like troubled stream, from heart, stands apart; I am lonely and lost; float on flooding river, Lifeless! Though reach the banks, I'll live like a sliver...! I try to avoid despair, yet, like leech it clings, Looks externally simple; it has hooking strings; With sufferings and pains it makes my mind brim-fill, When I find emptiness and void, it remains still...! How long will my hopelessness last? Will there be end? To those joys that shake it, will this easily bend? Is hope, like sun in fog veiled? Or like lost stars gone? Will, hence, in my life, no costumes of virtues don...? Am I able to relax in my times of pain? Seeking divine blessings, do I my soundness gain? Do I wait and watch for all gloomy times to pass? Does my outlook end with the tunnel of impasse...? Step-by-step, little-by-little I try to reach, Zenith of freedom and my troubles to impeach... Roughness in me, toward me, like chaffs in winds, blown, I tread the paths of life Holy Scriptures have shown...! 11 August 2022