Asha Iyer Kumar Poems

I will exhaust my embraces
before I pass through the gate,
Every shred of love I'll expend
till the veins weaken,
...

The night has a story to tell
Which the day will never know,
The day too has a story
Which the night will never know.
...

I summon a lullaby
From a distant memory,
To put my (inner) demons to sleep.
They have indulged for long,
...

When life longs
to unburden, to weep,
I shed its tears.
Words wet the wind,
...

I haven't seen you through the ages,
Through the changes,
Through your thriving, wilting and resurrection,
And the cycle of alterations.
...

If I had loved you by knowing,
The way one knows lame loving
There would have been only winters.
...

We exist in this verse
as syllables and sentences.
The pauses are our kisses,
The periods, our love making.
...

Who will stem the rot,
Vanquish the Satan under the skin,
Tame the wolf behind the veneer,
Crush the creepy worm
...

Don't conform to what you see,
Conform to what you feel
in the most honest cells of your body,
It is where the flowers go
...