Black Banners
How many villains dost thou harbour

In a fist-sized heart of flesh?

How many mutinous feelings to enmesh

The growing flame of soul’s ardour?

How many shames worm the breast

Under night’s all cloaking shroud?

How many deviances like a Titan proud

Stomping cloved feet in regions unblest?

How many appetites in festering gaze

That marks passage of every breath?

How many misshapen goblins in thought

That brew fumes of a poisonous maze?

These many black banners of infamy

Flutter across the fields of my memory.
['Mahesh Cr']
['Sri Aurobindo', 'Poetry Writing', 'Poetry', 'Yoga', 'Poetry On Medium']