Walking Toeless

Folder: 
Satish Verma

Stone by stone you kill me. 
Petal by petal I die - 


holding a scalpel 
to unwrite my name. 

Violence 
erupts among words. 
A temple breaks. 
O goddess! don't cry beyond silence. 

The infant's milk 
spills in darkness. 
Antiquity raises a wall 
around the mother. 

I am vanishing now, 
freezing my assets.