Stillbirth

Between want and desire
few crumbs of words
will not satisfy.

Facts and perception
build a latticed smile
between tears.

Discreetly life catches
a miasm, a fault
to commit suicide.

When will the exile end,
of hope, a holy womb?
The stink was rising.

Amnesty for amniotic fluid,
fetus was dead
Godmother was crying.


SATISH VERMA
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Pickett Avatar
April 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Dark, gloomy yet extremely entertaining.. Well done my friend..:JP]
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April 25, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Smile ˜ Rachel weeping for her children ˜ Marth, Martha, you worry about too many things but your sister Mary has found the most important of all and I shall not take from her.... * Love always, John!:) ˜
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