BETWEEN THE NAMES

To delegate death, 
a mirror condenses the human sorrow 
with an unclouded 
penury. 

The suffering competes 
with debt and pain, 
to find the difference between 
just and unjust. 

Prayer was not the full answer 
to cross the beyond 
of starvation. 
A parasitic twin always rides 
on your shoulder. 

That infant of sun lied on earth 
in the afterwords. 
I heard someone crying 
between the names.

Satish Verma