A Poem A Month -16 Solitude or Loneliness? (Telugu Original “Ekantamo Ontaritanamo” by Manasa Chamarti)

Even amidst a large gathering

This loneliness hurts me deep;

Even as I go in search of solitude

A vague idea treads on my trails.

Whole world is asleep… excepting me,

Even the capering stream takes rest, suspending its giggles,

The recent agitation amidst the foliage is absent, and

There is no trace of the warmth of the day… in the air.

The autumnal cloud follows the night-veil

Across the sky-line, and

Flaunting its brilliance under the moonbeams

Laughs in its sleeve, watching me gloomy.

Night melts before my very eyes

The stars disappear to different worlds

As the singular witnesses to the struggle within

Letters stream across the sheet like this.