Old Habits

Folder: 
Satish Verma

I wanted to make 
you my friend. 

The combative 
bull-taming on milk roads 
was in vogue. 

Somebody was talking 
about the rape of 
rising sun on the 
higher reaches. 

A marathoner stops 
midway to collect the nails 
after the bonfire of shoes. 

The festivity over, you 
can sing in the praise 
of fallen black moons. 

The gifts of crimes, for 
bounty hunters, were in plenty. 
I always stood in dark 
to evaluate the triangles.