ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON

ANOUCHEKA
GANGABISSOON

Earth’s Survival

The soft tunes of life

Play on

As Earth, sick and diseased,

Breathes with effort!

She remembers of her youth,

Of then, when

Draped in red robes,

She would dance and tap her feet

Mesmerizing those drenched in love with her!

Now,

Worn and cracked,

She can only cough

And try not to break down,

While her children,

Those same who once were in love with her,

Remain rooted there where they are

Appalled at what is happening around them,

Wondering, wonderstruck

At the meaning and purpose of their existence!

Love’s Effort

No, cried Love,

I believe in myself

I know,

Somehow,

I am a delicacy,

That,

Life craves for me,

As it needs me for its survival!

To say that I exist not,

That I am a lie

A shame, a way to soothe the ego

Implies that I am now

As unworthy as a rotten egg

Meant to be thrown away

As soon as possible!

Pray,

I am not dead,

My tomb may be there,

Set by the occult forces

Trying to govern this world,

But the guardian angels of God

Well aware

Of the potency of my power

Watch over me

And in them

I lay my trust!

I am not dead,

Nor am I dying

Lying bed ridden on a dirty bed

Smelling of foulness!

Why,

Rest assured that

I shall make sure

That I make myself heard

And felt

As long as I can!

The Pit

From up there,

In between the folds of comfort,

I was given a glimpse of this world!

People swam in shallow and calm seas

Others shopped and partied

Others toiled and lived

How beautiful said I

How happy they all seemed to be

Wearing such glamorous smiles on their faces!

I realised not,

That falling in this world

Is like falling into a pit,

In which the snakes of darkness

Have built their nests!

Pray,

People smile because they are used to doing such

People smile because they are ignorant,

Because their senses rule them

And they can perceive what they can see solely

As being the whole reality!

Why, I wonder what shall happen to me after death

I seek the survival of my soul

Sitting, once more,

In between the folds of comfort

Up there,

From where I fell!

ANOUCHEKA

GANGABISSOON

Anoucheka Gangabissoon is a Primary School Educator in Mauritius.  She writes poetry and short stories as hobby.  She considers writing to be the meaning of her life as she has always been influenced by all the great writers and wishes to be, like them, immortalized in her words.  Her works can be read on poetrysoup.com and she had also appeared in various literary magazines like SETU, Different Truths, Dissident Voice, In Between Hangovers Press, WISH Press, Tuck’s Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, among others.  She has also been published in Duane’s Poetree and also in four anthologies for the Immagine and Poesia group.  Her poems are often placed in free online contests.  She has been selected to be among the Most Influential Women in Mauritius for the 2017 category Arts and Culture and she has also been awarded as a Promising Indian for the year 2017 for the same category.  In 2018 and 2019, she was again chosen to be among the Most Influential Women of Mauritius for her contributions to be literary field of the island and in 2019, she was one of the three nominees for the National Awards, Literature Side, organised by the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Mauritius.