Looking Back

half-clad
      cult of violence
boiling their
            soulmates

roasting
            the foes

one by one
            killed
by a ligature
            they were building the dams
            to harvest the power
                                   from tears

             fear
climbs on your shoulders
             unburns hydrocarbons
a train moves through the black cloud
                                     night

              lies naked



Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Kendrick Avatar
March 10, 2010 at 5:55 AM
Whoa! Explain...Sara
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