Eternity

Pearl – drops
on your upper lip:
heat –
of a stand-off
between
inside and outside.

More spiritual
I become
forgetting
the black eye,
I want to go back
with empty hands.

My home
is far away,
doorless,
roofless,
where dark squints at the moon.


SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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March 13, 2009 at 6:17 AM
your title comes through wonderfully in this delightful poem! great again! Jim
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