Ferocious Poem by Daipayan Nair

Plate is dead white
with a two headed lizard
sharing cockroaches.

Cockroaches without
visible antennas
are no different.

They are swarming in at will,
growing in its belly.

We like day-roaming near the
innocent mouth
of our own doom.

We prefer sticking
to the tongue
that devours us.

We say, we must get chewed
for a new life.

Two mouths fighting over
a same liking
is seldom seen as love.

The lizard is maturing,
growing in size.

Those two heads are
called beautiful
but seen as the ferocity

of a ferocious need.

Two separate heads
are always seen as such.