System

It was a fractured miscarriage.
The system groaned like a huge cow. 
We milked her till human thirst chopped the teats.
I belong to no glamour, 
my faults burn like classics. 
Total freedom will come 
when I am through.

The dates creep under the skin, I faint,
The tiny  minims  shine on my lips.
The symbols crash.
Me and my shadow bubbling with
the smell of poems, 
I come back to arguments.
To justify the Armageddon
 of first & last love.

How could it happen? 
The fear has death, as a lover. 
I sleep with it every night. 
The demolition of memory, it sweats like a black cloud. 
There is no religion in desires,
 choiceless destruction of each dawn.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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