Hide and Seek - Part 8 - Rhyming & Non Rhyming Poems by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

29. MOUSE TRAP

I waited ardently all night and day to imprison your tiny grace; enticing you with my balls of tangy cheese,

I inhabited the most illuminated corner of the room; so that you could sight me in profound traces of white light,

I greedily glimpsed the minuscule of your intricate movement; fervently following your diminutive silhouette like a panther on the prowl,

I surreptitiously envisaged countless strategies to torment you; inevitably opening my lid a trifle in insurmountable agony,

I incessantly relished the bouncy pairs of springs in my body; the soft chunks of sponge sprawled in haphazard disharmony in my gleaming cage,

I had this sole ambition to trap you in my present life; with my mind indefatigably revolving round the contours of your pertinent body,

I was partly impaired from crystalline vision;witnessed the outside world as an partially obfuscated haze through my myriad of bars and rods,

I was procurable at threadbare rates from the market; with people generally wading their hands as far from me; as consummately possible,

I shivered in the freezing cold every night; while my master had a smashing time sandwiched handsomely under the gorgeously woven exquisite quilt,

I was wholesomely illiterate since infantile birth; the only name that I ruthlessly chanted each second was yours; impatiently awaiting to savagely besiege you,

I had remained starved since fathomless decades; feasting on only bottomless perceptions of rubicund flesh,

I got barbarically kicked infinite times in a single day; with people washing their feet soon after with the strongest of medicinal herb; instead of depicting traces of  poignant empathy, 

I didn’t need a single penny for survival; bore the brunt of drought and flood with overwhelming equanimity on my rusty body,

I hardly knew what day of the month it was; with a battalion of red ant and irascible termites crawling freely on my slippery hinges,

I had a disdainfully obnoxious stench emanating from my soiled demeanor; was repugnant to whomsoever who had his eyes on my dilapidated condition,

I stood just a few inches above the ground; always feeling overpowered by all entities who trespassed heavily through the cold ground,

I harbored dirt and fetid filth all throughout my existence; wistfully hoping for you to stealthily pass by my side,

And I might just appear to be an empty container of junky iron; rotting in the realms of unprecedented agony and solitary gloom,

But mind you "Mouse"; I the "Mouse Trap" have always wanted to gobble you all my life; and once you were in my custody you little scoundrel; try as hard as you can; let even the sky come down on earth; But this time I wont let you out.