The Monologue For Burnt Out Subjects

The monologue of burnt out subjects 
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The monologue of wind 
has stopped its hum a while 
admiring nothingness 
of this vale; there are stumps 
of trees where verdant 
has once been scalded by 
a famished forest flame. 
She sees the red flickers 
of light at the mute nights  
and choke them with pillows. 
The spots of burnt fears 
seeded her awake eyes.
The monologue of wind 
isn’t really its own;
it is what my shouts 
has become, some lame drones.
Of course the death of trees 
has long been predicted;
the way people has said
that our spell will end
and she will depart me  
there, in the forest
when the fire will 
begin from a corner…

In the vale, wind passes, hissing;
I am nowhere like those trees.
=© 2009 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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