Horror of Light
written by: Probal Basak
@pbkeyboy
In a not so ordinary day
someone somewhere somehow
trumped up the plan
to wake the world up from
primitive darkness under its hood.
As the world woke up to lights,
too much lights around,
it craved for even more
like the colony of beetles
flies to the smoldering wood.
As our world continued its walk
into the horror of lights, the
addicted eyes lost eyesight one day,
and, the blind world laid an egg,
unlike the one the firebugs brood.
A student of English literature and an alumnus of Indian Institution of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, he started his career as a journalist working with Press Trust of India, Business Standard covering mostly socio-political issues. Currently employed as an officer with Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal, he explores different forms of creative writing in spare time to share his thoughts, expression, passion and rage. Apart from publications in various literary magazines, his first collection of poems, 'Flakes of Time' has recently been published by Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters, India.
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