Thinking Off •••

Folder: 
Satish Verma

I walk through the slush 
of moral grief. 
Here lies my mortal poem. 

A prodigal menace. 
You will not breathe in, the 
golden grass, once more. 
Lingering beside the past, the 
savage today. I pick up 
the silence of the tomb. 

Lateral conjugation. You 
come from the otherside to 
breach the wall, bear the 
pluralism― 

and become none. The under- 
belly, the yellow blood? 
Will you hold my hand 
to cross the meaning?

allets's picture

"...bear the  pluralism―"

When I read a line like this I go all over the place (pluralistically) to withstand: people, crowds, variety's offering, weight of being, bombardment of stimuli, world view reconcilled, expose the plethoric, the substance of writing that trires to unveil everything, surviving any onrush of emotion, or onslaught of the seeable or touchable. Rich image for getting lost in. ~Stella~