Best Poems Written by Ankitha Rao

Life Across Two Sides

I saw her down the street

Her brown eyes arresting me

I stood startled; She hid behind

Her pig-tail was a giveaway

Her handprint on the wall;

a consolation of innocence

I walked to her;

She looked down

at her muddy feet,peeping toenails

My sneakers disrupting her sight

My ripped jeans mocked her

My silence agonised her

She saw me;

I looked down

My thoughts ran in utter chaos

Her eyes asked a question

Her ears heard no answer

Her purple knee caught me

The drying bruise worried me

The hurrying world broke the silence

A call to work dragged us from our reverie

The piled rock-hill hid her from my sight

and curious pairs of peering eyes

had me rush for cover

We were the same,yet

I was reduced to her rags

Her mute pull stunned my mind

My rebellious conscious put to rest

We stood aside

Life across two sides

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