What a Life

Why, why we keep on 
weighing each other ?
You were an anchor;
I was a feather.

*

The land fall !
There was no noise.
Tornado had come like
a revelation !

*

After the break,
you count the rings-
in heart wood.
A condensed torture !


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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