23 September, 2022

Sacrifices

Love comes on tiptoes.
You were eating one moon everyday.
The Rose garden was haunted.

Who was hungriest on
this starving earth ? The massive gorges
the stars. The weakest spits venom.

You don't want to taste
the blue salt of a lake. It was becoming
red in the dark setting sun.

Satish Verma

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