light of my life, fire of my grief

light of my life, fire of my grief

A Poem by gunagya sokal
"

light of my life, fire of my grief.

"
i loved you so much;





the deafening silence in the quiver of my bones; 
you drew a dagger, forth, a ton, of warm steel;

tearing every clothe, every niche of me; 




as you passed through every crevice, as your own light; i stood, 

in incandescence;
my arched ribs extended out to yourself,
when i searched for your unfettering light; protruded, and 
walloped, 


i missed you like the yearning i'd felt; and my rocks came crumbling down,




of the only sombre of what you had left behind of me.


i was struck when i first heard from you again, was lathered in brown foam; 

a shampoo suicide;





i had a childish whim; i wanted to tell you,

that i was now enlightened for only a month later; 
i had learnt everything you wanted to tell me that i never understood, but i only bore guilt; now halo;

crushed under my suffering; my insufferable grievance;
the light of its warmth had already brushed me, 





and i'd often fell to the footsteps you'd trudged along, 

the frail of my blossoms; chestnuts,

textured;



you ruptured open bones; this vine stuff you left behind had already twirled me,

scathe, lightheaded; 

i was stuffy,





a pale beige of your dough, slate;
from the tears i'd scarfed myself through, a ruin; 
i had soured the dough, 




i was in your kneading, splintered;

when I heard a cutting, a blade that severed;
through, 

piercing meconcorde took route out of my throat;
i gushed from the walls of my throat, out, wounded;



screeching, 

and you felt it in the gut; darling, i
stood ashamed, 

leaving me bare, in this new sun; and i swallowed,












but we withered different; 



in the last text of yourself, my sorrow only humiliated me; 

i grew so frantically restless; the shiver of my body set apart a quail;
a silver tongue, 
"do you still hate me?
would you still come back?"



i missed talking to you, 




my head bowed lower than the weight of uranus;


blue, cold;

a stern stubble;



i couldn't stand next to you, next friday; 
next weekend; a sunday daughter, 


i pleased; for,
the only reason that kept me alive was this pain you left me with;
enough to seep my eyes above;
the surface,



i carried you literally anywhere;


your heartbreak had taken root into me; a kayak dream; 








and i was left with everything; and everything else,




i concurred;
i hadn't showered in six weeks, now,

my eyes burned when I rubbed them,


strings or chords;
pitched cuts; i screamed seething, 
cuts pitched me; 








and for the longest time i harbored fear, 
i was fearsome;























i cut myself a million other times; 



i wreathed breathless;





gasping,





in the sinew of my bridge;




please don't leave,

© 2025 gunagya sokal


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gunagya sokal
gunagya sokal

India



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20 year old male writer. experimentation and critique regarded; i'm here to put myself out for a bit. i particularly write in avant-garde and surrealist literature. content disclaimer: strong lang.. more..