satishverma

BEYOND THE CLIQUE

Dignity of knife in hope or fright 
cuts the outer edge of desire.Huddled 
anxiety oversees the fringe bites 

of comforts. The child you abandoned 
on road becomes a tree I nurtured. 
A leafy town grows in the calyx of capricious 

impermanence. Calisthenics permeates the 
vibrations in foxgloves.Dragonflies become 
vulnerable in feckless shadows of eyes. The 

lithe body metastasizes into a mausoleum, 
you adore. A tiger mauls a gift of bed. 
Your whispers start hissing for intrusion. 

A pilgrim of negation raises a non-belief, 
creates a stimulus to bestow an endless 
pain in summation of all night.

Satish Verma