It is where lies come readily
Without any prompting
...
A wall not seen as a wall
Is the one difficult to pull down
...
We, devotees, were asked
To go through a metal detector,
Frisked for belt-bombs
Our bags were searched
...
Silence is not always consent
It could be a loss of words
Even a loss of faith in words
Perhaps, a pause, for something else
...
The night flickers
As tantalizing as a
Half-remembered dream
With its mosaic
...
When the earth turned
As infirm as the sea
Little was left standing
Of hubris or faith or hope;
...
What are the Greeks to us
Or we to the Greeks
That we should weep thus
For them; our fate is mirrored in theirs - -
...
There were fewer farmer suicides
Last year than in the previous year
The crime records bureau report said
Only 1980 took their lives in 2014
...