Searching Still

Still searching

I have tried searching for hope

In glasses filled with liquid gold

Topped with floating silver cubes

Which melt away with every sip

My despair could learn to do that

The melting bit

Though it refuses to do so

Consolidating even more

At the bottom of my emptying glass

Have searched for meaning since long

In decorating my home

Each corner filled with junk

Bought online

Seen hope in enterprise

That has led nowhere somehow

May be notches higher in standing

And accolades that ended

Before I could bask in them

Seen everything in world rise sky high

Then crumble and breakdown

Leaving a scaffolding

Ugly behind

That gloats at itself with pride

Seen people killed for nonsense

Or get raped where they are safe

And they don’t leave anything behind

Not even a scaffolding

Have come to know by now

Nothing lasts and nothing helps

Can steal few moments of peace

Or a night long of it, when I sleep

Though despair returns somehow

As night begins it’s end

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar