Loaves

When the street was becoming alive
man had become a charged bull,
goring the god to death.
My father wept, took the corpse home,
that was his child.

In the wild fire, a tall eucalyptus
had burned, turned black.
What did you think, this year,
spring would not come?

I remained very sad those days.
When the self was me, my image
I was dying without death ;
through the veils, I would not see.

Was the pinnacle of your is, was becoming
empty? Tell me when we would learn,
the tiny truth of a primate? Or become
snakes eating our own children?



SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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April 17, 2010 at 6:18 AM
oh, the mind of Satish! a treasure here on the soup! good day to ya! jimbo
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