Prathibha Nandakumar Poems

Give me the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

You are sworn by whatever you believe in
and are not dismissed untill judged.
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He did not look the same, he had changed
For better or worse I could not make out
Oblivious to the fact that
we were meeting after a million years
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Nothing of that afternoon was appropriate.

His coming in late and in the casual manner
asking for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but
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Nearer than this, can be death.

My hands lie on the coffee table and yours
next to it and we are not grouping
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I knew, finally, it was time to meet, to own up and confess.
It’s easy to pretend you don’t care but to kiss and tell
is a very strange exercise. Some one writes of
one hundred years of solitude as if he knew me that well
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My destiny is contained
In your silence

You prefer absence
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His eyes were swollen
He was gesturing
making a point
Moving his thick fingers
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I shop for him

And gift him the stars
the moon and the constellation
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Homeless

I am home
In your waters.
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The Lord of Blue Waters
Has no use for
These kisses and hugs
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