My Black Rosary With Red Cross and Daily Bread

A gaze at uncertainty in your meal time

A wave of poverty in your surroundings

Which one will spoil your hunger?

What will kill your taste buds?

Nothing for sure can eat you

Unless you have eaten something else

A pinch of salt in your sweat

It refuses to give up its taste

A pale edge of your empty plate

It refuses to smile at your disposal

A moment when mind forgets to remember

A moment when mind remembers to forget

Matters of convenience and coincidence

All this happens in our daily life

We keep a bread for the day

Shrinks by the evening, rots by the fifth day

Filth by a weeks time, frozen in your next working day

Weeks after, you meet them all in your wounds

Your despair, your inertia, your pathos and vanity

All is known to submit to the season of red black winters

Same applies to my black rosary with red cross in my chest
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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