Children
Of Destiny :
She was a child of mistakes
Or so thought the bodies
That made her
And dumped her with leftovers
In a roadside bin
But as luck would have it
Or destiny
She survived the cold night
And thirty years
To be a mother of her
Own children
No mistakes she murmured
As she looked at their
Innocent smile
And cried a solitary tear
For two unknown faces
Of Dreams And
Betrayals :
I
washed my hair in rose water
For
you. But you did not come.
The
man who came with scissors
To
chop the locks was not you.
I
put bindi on my forehead and
Lavender
behind my ears for
You.
But you did not come. The
Man
who came and blotched
The
bindi all over my face was
Not
you.
I
draped my first red sari carefully
And
waited by the window for you.
But
you did not come. The man who
Came
with brutal hands to tear it
Off
my body was not you.
Tell
me how many of You are there.
Tell
me how many of You will molest
My
dreams and not see my tears.
Tell
me how many times I have to die
In
your hands to find you.
Old Age Home Birthdays :
half a candle
flame limping
stood shaking on
the plum cake
few faded ribbons
pulled out from
the drawer lent
some color
blurred images looked
back from yellow
photographs
someone strumming
You Have A Friend
in the next building
drunk in that thought
blowing out the candle
I stood in darkness
and whispered
happy birthday
to the mirror
Ripples
she spoke
soft like a lullaby
pearl shaped syllables
forming at the tip of her lips
rolled down on my cheeks
a stream of mid-summer
rain drops serenade
washed away by
the wind before
fingers could
touch them
and since
I sing her songs
in words of wild flowers
plucked from her tree she
had planted in my valley
with her feet walking
the river of dreams
under a moonlit
night sky
once
Voices Within - Complete List of Poets :: Setu, January 2019
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