To be or not to be

Yes

To be or not to be

Since teenage

 Heard these lines

Mulled over them

Many many times

When, at last,

The meaning sinks in

It’s end of

Journey with links in

Phases you wonder

The joy, the trust, and

The total surrender

Then comes the

Betrayal of Life

The sharpest Knife

( Sudden calamity )

The volte – face

The fall from grace

The  shock the disbelief

A bitter laugh-

Unshed tears

And poetic relief

Hanging with a thin thread

Almost disoriented

In a state of Fluidity

Swinging with inability

To decide

To be or not to be

To see or not to see

That is the question

                                                ~ Sudha Dixit

                                                       Bangalore, India