Footprints Poem by Saroj Padhi

FOOTPRINTS



At the mouth a river ceases to be the river

as she empties into tides that swiftly take over

thro' false promises made by sea, the sensual lover,

without adequate foreplay her sweet body is won over;



the tryst at the delta is a witness to the pretenses

made under moonlight by the foaming, fretting waters

by the artful flex of masculine muscles

where she is a sheer show of poor reflex,

in the artifice of roaring waves, a forced silence;



‘Everything is fair in love', he says before subsuming

her soul under the wide stretch of his vast body

with undying, endless hunger

when she is a poor lust, a semblance of desire;



undressed she walks on the sprawling sands

with a defleshed body, outraged soul

and the poor marks of her footprints

as she wobbles on,

are washed away by a cruel, fuming shore!



COPY RIGHT: @ SAROJ K. PADHI / 08.04.18