ANKLETS

Teeming life 'neath my feet

and I

Wait with bated breath

All is still on this hillside

as we wait..

the faint tinkling of your anklets

now drawing closer

birds break into song

leaves dance

the river in silver ripples

and I blow a thousand bubbles, 

your image in each one

in rainbow hues

JIGSAW PUZZLE COMPLETED

Maybe I needed to be hurt

crushed and trampled upon?

A miniscule light went on in my mind

growing brighter by the moment…

Thoughts gathered and scattered

a thousand shards 

of perspectives—

none too sharp to cut through the pain,

and yet, I bled within.

You got me all nailed—

you thought!

but I know how to fix a mirror

to reflect the shades

I want the world to see—

have them read between the lines

of broken glass—

my thousand-shards perspective

now a completed jigsaw puzzle.

CALLING OUT!

Are we just a colony of pests

Sprayed upon from above?

What will catch your attention?

A funny jig?

Something out of the ordinary?

A white ant in a colony of black ones?

Whatever it is I have to do

To catch your attention

To let you know

It's not okay

I'm not okay

We're not okay

And we're going nowhere -

This is our world

We live here.

We die here.

ONLY YOU

gentle waves

and thoughts of you

overlap...

down the lane

old familiar tune

honeysuckle fragrance

wafting in gentle breeze...

green grass

on hillock

the lone willow weeps

cold winter day

our thoughts intertwine

eyes speak candor

Only you

only you...

THROUGH A DOORWAY

Through a doorway

you peek

at the passage of time -

its another generation

that laughs at age-old conventions.

Through a doorway

you see them

lounging against walls in bizarre clothes

love songs in their hearts.

Through a doorway

you blink

at thin spaces of sunshine

the flutter of a bird's wings

the Gulmohar in full bloom.

And you realize

time has passed you by

giving way along the folds and creases

the smell of decay

on the gray shades of your life.

TO MY ABUSER

In the clear waters of the lake

do my teardrops make a difference?

Are they distinctive? Do the fish avoid them - so full of pain??

I will never know.

The black charcoal

etched 

your cruel words into my heart

forever

never to erase my mistrust in you -

Your smile - it means nothing!

Your love - it means nothing!

"You're mine!" you claim

"I swear I will never hurt you again!"

....you claim.

Your claim, not mine.

I stare blankly at you.

In the cold grey day outside

In a cloud, I see a form

Why do I see a form?

Why do i feel it follows me everywhere?

Why do I see shadows...

Everywhere??

You and I  - we make no sense

Should we die

and come alive, still

make no sense.

Trying to hold water in your hands -

never a wise thing to do.

OUT OF LINE

In your eyes I saw 

my soul reflected

out of line

you thought

defining line your way

She thought she'd step out of line too - 

not to meet me

but out of line sounded fun

Was it fun once you stepped out?

The breeze blows harder

turns into a cyclone

and you are not she

to not be blown away

Out of line you scream - 

'Mind how you do it!'

A calm only around her

a glow

aglow

She walked the steps keeping

just out of line

and then moves tangent

and parallel out of line

winds speak poetry,

trees nod to rhythm,

she read between the lines

in the silences in vacant patches of 

wet Earth

drawing her own circle

Within Without