I Wonder Still – [on Reading “is Poetry Also Cruel? ” By Premji Premji] Poem by Angelina Pandian

I wonder, why you ask,
'Is poetry also cruel? '

A poem brings out
The emotions
The pain it eases
When we read
Reflect on poems
Written in the past
By us or others lost.

Memory rakes up
The wound anew
And it bleeds tears
Of salt which burn
Into the soul - Still
It is a poem which
Soothes the pain.
Sadness and Happiness
Both sides of life
Sometimes unequal.

But, I wonder still, why you ask,
'Is poetry also cruel? '
And search within my heart!