Gifted Death

Sometimes
you want to shut the book
and bring out the darkness from bleached words
of a lonely march of the tree.
How to think or not to think 
drinking the wine of pain ?


Baby, do not go into the river.
The alligators will celebrate your birthday
by climbing on you for a purple bath.
Today the sun will not rise from Styx.
An anonymous author will steal a gun
and make a hole in head. 

A black tulip in snow bleeds red 
for a fallen sky and dies to ask some
uncomfortable questions.



Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Lucas Mcclure Avatar
June 28, 2012 at 9:47 AM
great write! enjoyed the read! Lori
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