Oversighting

With shaking hands
   you give a fatal push
      to the old year.

           *

Inner turmoil 
    falls through the cracks 
       of your persona.

           *

A troubled past 
    wants you to end the slavery 
       of sleeping, between birth and death.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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