Insane 
I turn around 
an amputee 
to live, for not living 
fighting the inner war 
speared, 
lacerated, 
like neanderthal in cave 
my weapon 
the serrated moon 
cried in fluted dark 
a glimpse of bare bones 
the ash of a bleeding dawn 
my shuttered courage 
in urn 
there was only one evening
Satish Verma