Fissured Life Yet Reason to Hope
Acrostic Poem by Gurupreet K Khalsa
In fractured lines and delicate hope, this acrostic poem explores despair and redemption, weaving a path through chaos to find light.
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They weep here/ for how the world goes.
“The Aeneid,” 56-57
Pretension cloaking despair –
Entropy’s unbearable imminence crosses
A line in time’s sand, broken by chaos
Caught half up and half down,
Emerging as the bleak decoherence
Of quirled expectations. Eye to the fractal scope:
New gossamer symmetry, essential beauty
Elevates by degrees past scything cynicism,
A journey through a maze undone by light
Reflecting galactic stepping stones,
The power of Right and Justice,
Hope to mend a fractured world.
Unbearable imminence:
Ben H. Winters, “The Last Policeman” (2012)
Gurupreet K. Khalsa, a current resident of Alabama, considers connections, space, time, reality, illusion, and possibility. She holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Design and is a part time instructor in graduate education programs. Her work has appeared in multiple journals; many poems have received awards.