An Existentialist's Masquerade | Ayaan Fahad
POETRY
6/2/20251 min read
Play Macbeth in a comedy
Place a void in light,
Be a pathetic masquerade
To an audience out of sight.
A beloved’s serenade
Obsequious to her divine might.
Be a philanthropist,
A convicted felon,
An expansionist,
Be Caesar, be Helen.
Be Kafka’s insect,
Be Dostoevsky’s nights,
Be not Nastenka–
But a singer’s reprise.
An artist’s muse,
His tragic demise,
His descent to madness,
His inevitable insanity.
Every scribe’s fate,
Sacrificial to the art,
Sabotage, self hate.
Say a lonesome monologue,
A soliloquy of solitude.
Act: an eternal ember,
Sisyphus on the verge of surrender.
Be nauseatingly miserable beyond repair,
Be a nihilist trapped in despair.
With rotten, wisdom-filled minds
Commit a heinous deed
Murder thyself within, read.
Ayaan Fahad is a poet from Lahore, Pakistan. He aims to write poetry that emotionally resonates with people and captures things left unsaid, incorporating raw emotion within his works.