Mask Unmasked

To become or not to become a renegade,
or to die or not to die for a semi-god?


These were some of the questions
thrown at an incomplete script.


What elevated you to a celebrity?
Your hump or deep wrinkled groans?
Age is abating, abattoir is empty.
Exile from the past is over.
When you intend to comeback to childhood
and become a simple star?

Behind the mask lies the embrace of death.
I am afraid the flames will engulf,
the genius of pathways.
Everything will turn into obsolete gossip.
A patch of sunlight becomes a costly exposure.
Bones are entwined in eternal cuddle.


Satish Verma