Monday 18 January 2016

WILD BASILS: PAYAL SUNANDA'S PAGE:1 Woman of her wealth

WILD BASILS
 

Woman of her wealth
If I had to choose today,
I wish to be a woman of her wealth,
carrying the weight of her diploma,
unabridged edition of fancy dreams,
such peculiar customs returned with
profound silence and throbbing temples
pause broken by her remarking
gently insinuated through her own
confusion of thoughts.
Eyes humbly stationed interrogatively
accepting any man's estimation of
a woman,
within the hour come kingliest voices
high above the heads of men,
pass across the broidered shoulders
stood proud facing colourful awnings,
windows as hungry as a husband for
a lady's reception....
Sojourn where midnight owls are ever
interesting, rivers returned with dignity
and accurate memories deploring her
unwillingness to stop reading between
existing lines distinct in the realms of irony,
felt short-sightedly with a contemptuous laugh.

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