Sitabz Garg Poet Blank verse

How the Lights Flickered In the Rain

*how* *the* *lights* *flickered* *in* *the* *rain* 


Dark skinned,
cross eyed,
with thick mascara 
She was a poet.
and a dancer before that
Or was she a singer ,
I do not remember .
It was the festival of lights
The light from the earthen lamps 
fell slowly
 into the grass 
and in the freshly fallen dew 
it lingered awhile.
She wrote in her poems 
Of how she was a firefly 
She could shine
But no longer fly.
She sang,she danced
 and got drunk in everyone else's music.
They cursed her pen
And so as she lit the lamps
she knew that she ,
will burn that night .
Her dog with in his yellow collar 
Slept under the diwali lights,
 dreaming of lizards
 and of  Christmas .
They put a lot 
of lights out 
that year,
In a friendly
  competition 
with  the neighbours.
The lights were on
all night 
and it rained
 later that night .
No one saw how
the lights flickered 
In the rain .
But she did.
She walked
passed them
when everyone else 
was atlast sleeping  
She took
the essentials .
in hand and
 like the lights 
in the rain, 
she burned.



(• Diwali- Indian Festival of lights)

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