Redefined Poem by Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi

A little nip
A little tuck
A dot
On forehead
You need
Some scrub

A little weight
You got to gain
To be home bound
have to retrain
Even then
A mans love
For you remains
So uncertain

You are,
too dark.
Don't care
For your
spark.
Restrained
Don't show
feelings in
Shades so stark

You are
To be tamed
Those passions
To be reigned
all those
Dreams
Got to be washed
Down the
Bottomless drain

You're essence
To be shelved
Your beauty
To be shunned
Your spirit
To be burned
What
you've earned
to be
Returned

And so now
In the end
I am cactus
Of the sand
I don't bloom
Have no fruits
Give no shade
Sapless roots

Just me
Nalini