Fabiyas M V Poet Free verse

Living for the Future

Though curved like a question mark, 
she walks without a Zimmer frame. 
Will she ever veer from 
the narrow, 
nonsensical 
dirt road? 

She earns,
mopping, scrubbing, laundering, and currying. 
She’s often gifted with 
rice, tea powder, jaggery, sari, soap, 
and so on. 
Thanks to the munificence 
of her mistress. 
She saves and stores, 
living in parsimonious penury. 
She loses her delicious delights 
in spending tension. 
A schlock existence –
everything safely decays in her store. 

There’s certainly a spark of work 
(even at the dog-end) 
of her life. 
But when will she live on the earth?


First published in Native Skin, and then reprinted in The Literary Hatchet

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