Satish Verma Poems

You went blank on the line
between sand and water,
between seizure and assault.
The tribes have unwrapped their torches,
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Neglecting the presence of choiceless
pain, I became singular and I said
I would not allow the life
slip through my fingers.
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In a starry night
an adolescent thought starts
a rivalry. A baby moon squirms.
No hour was safe from terror in dark.
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Blackened silence was holding the reflectivity,
reality was on the run.
Exile was complete.
Dark secrets, standing on head
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Tie the knot with my mortgaged life –
I have started the self-descent.

Don’t leave me alone –
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A fear stalks me on the road.
Sun was very aloof and cold.
Cannot stop the decline,
give me prayers of your lips.
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Watching the charred remains
of the toys
you want me to search for another house.
Eventually I decide
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I don’t belong to me,
to you, to her, to him.
Who are you, I ask myself
again falling in love for a tender shoot,
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Why are you packing up for final journey?
I am not getting the signals from the stars
through the amnesia. The moon will rise
on the desolate landscape of broken dreams
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I believe, I had not arrived
when you were arbitrating
between naked steel and the truth.
Violence were you. I was watching
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