Survival

Unslept- hangman, flees from the noose. The day had come to execute. A thought had become a fear but fear was not a thought. Naked in the moon a wolf wants move of something leaning on the hills of thirst, bitten by the views of cemetery. The landscape was changing. You want to cover your head with a topi, standing on the edge of a lake before you are drowned under the burning eyelids. A Buddha smiles from the shelf. How can you fill the emptiness of a bowl, which has hundred holes ? Satish Verma