RIVAL ENTREATIES

climbing on the umblical hill 
ahead of the contours, 
a denier 
alters the chemistry of hate in negative space; 
fauna of the earth springs black stones, 
man made, on the glistening sex of 
lotuses, a forgetfulness ensures 
the conceptual withdrawl of the red bull; 
hand in hand a sea walks towards the tender beach 
to dazzle the hidden sun, 

light was inside his body, but he was still 
groping for the sleeping lips of a virgin, 
into her broken promises; the debris throws up 
the severed limbs to negate the will 
to live, words must betray a step down, maintaing 
a clueless trauma, there was fearlessness, 
but no dignity, you have drawn a horizontal 
line hugging the boundaries of truth 
and lies, I recall buddha to smile in the 
eyes of death

Satish Verma