A Crowd Pyramid

It was a very ordinary day
uncelebrated.
A nephrite sits on the flanks,
I gravitate  between smile and tears.

What will happen,
had not happened earlier,
moon will walk away from the sun,
to sit in dark
unhealed and unsutured.

It was the day of son
of the soil,
beheading by a sword the language and speech.
How can you divide the sky,
the trees, the rivers ?

And the flock descends on the chairs
to watch the art of decapitation.

 

Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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December 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM
I don't understand why people want to watch such things. Does God or Allah look down with joy when he sees hatred acting upon mankind? I just don't get it. Your write is good. It brings out emotions. It makes one think of right vs wrong. And of our Heavenly Father... Love to you. Lovingly, Dane Ann (soup mail)
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