Satish Verma Poems

I believe, I had not arrived
when you were arbitrating
between naked steel and the truth.
Violence were you. I was watching
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Today I will shed my body
and meet you halfway at watery address.
My eyes were not blinking to hold the clouds.
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Any need to stitch an acid,
bare designed, in endoplasm,
when moon was walking like a full-breasted bride?
The synthetic feat was neat and clinical,
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Tonight I will not sleep
I will call you in my eyes.

My hands were trembling
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Hold me tight, my friend,
I am going to sail in damnation.
Between devil and saint
I have lost my home.
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A river was frozen in my chest, O god –
I choose a burning boat to reach you.
My planet has become a broken bridge.
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Banded I walk
on the dirt road,
when discreetly, your shadow falls behind me.
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Manipulating grief, dirty hands -
open the lid,
release imagos. Eyes are blank.
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He had only one vision now,
as he chained himself not to be set free.
He was afraid of living.
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He faked a letter to god
and slept whole night.
(Fallen in a creek from a moving train.)
Indeed, he saddled himself with luxury
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