Drumming

in hired spring and naked thighs

the eternal sorrow did not go, it was living in our
memory under the gun of an unknown soldier. The
mania

had brought the overwhelming jeopardy of artificial
smiles, the swords, and ropes and different

tools of torture brew abomination, my clay
absorbs the shock, the abandonement of pain;

I reach for the icicles of veiled fire to burn
the generosity, the sacrificial amputation

of one’s own neck in service of opposition


SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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September 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Excellent talent! Please write a verse for my "Dialect Contest" so we can hear the lilt, the music of an Indian accent;)
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