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Awake but Asleep

Life is full of deception, says Elsy, in this verse, exclusively for Different Truths.

One wakes up
only if asleep,
falls asleep
only if awake.

Some are ever asleep,
some, seemingly asleep!
None can wake them up!

Walking asleep
they hear without listening,
stare without seeing.

Awareness is alien to them.
Awareness is wakefulness.

Nights inside
should be emptied outside,
and refilled with light!

Some pillow their heads
on Light,
others on Night.
It is a matter of choice.

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Elsy Satheesan
Elsy Satheesan is a retired Professor of English. She had been teaching in colleges under the Govt. of Kerala, India. Currently, she resides in Virginia, USA. ‘Random Musings’ is her first volume of poems. ‘Summer Snow’, is the forthcoming one. Her poems have been published in national and international anthologies. Short stories in Malayalam have been published in weekly and fortnightly, in Kerala. Humanity is her religion, and poetry, her passion.
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