LAST WORDS

Folder: 
Satish Verma

Like an asterisk 
I adjure you to fly like an 
eagle, on the wings of light. 
The poems are ready to become 
jealous; 

an attempted murder 
went awry, subscribing to water. 
I swallow the hemlock without 
any effort. Intoxicated, I move in a jungle 
of knives - 

where the tenderness is at stake. 
You tremble with closed eyes. The 
mutation had failed. Among the 
shoulders the night sits and calls 
it a day.