Mood

by Chanchal Kumar

A star-filled night sky, with the Milky Way visible, and below a silhouette of trees on a hill with a ribbon of light that is a highway.

Sometimes,
     everything begins
       to fascinate me:
The slow passage of night
across the sky,
     the blur of traffic,
the snare of my smartphone.
          What I want
     is a way
          out of presentness.
       I want
    to leave & hope
   to keep going—tho I don’t know
      if I want to get out of bed
to do that.

Category: Featured, Poetry