LIFE DEMANDS ONE THING

The brain will not cease. 
Agitation explores 
the hypocrisy of paths. 
My myths burned, I spinned and tipped 
over the inverted truths. 
Again I skip the swamps. 
Body becomes a frozen lake. 

Take off the mask now, tree is flowering 
solitary shade is beginning to enlarge. 
It is arrival time. 
For you it is difficult geometry. 
The stolen dreams collapse at your door. 
Exhausted, you are grateful to defeatism. 

The moth eaten rags cover the polarities of words. 
Faceless fear is ready to strike. 
Your eyes are filled 
with civilized tears. 
The weaning from wings was difficult. 
Life demanded one thing, 
death another.

Satish Verma