Obstinacy

Be tender, with me? 
in midstream. 
I will not arrive.

Perversity was not 
my virtue. I am still 
burning on coals.

It was a disappearing act. 
I become a brown rose 
in your eyes.

The impacted glitch. 
I was not deft 
at the art of weaving a ritual.

I carry the dried skull, 
of my unknown ancestor, 
who would not come back to home.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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March 5, 2016 at 4:26 AM
Well done
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