An inward looking, evocative poem, about the sense of pain, by Neelam, exclusively for Different Truths.
You look at the splinters
Of the broken mirror
And laugh.
The laughter takes you back
To the time
When your heart was first broken.
In that moment,
There were a million shards,
And the sharpest had stabbed your veins
Benumbing your heart,
Blood had simply oozed out everywhere silently,
Making you numb.
Life kept breaking you now and then,
But the shards only grew in size,
Diminishing in quantity;
Wound in the heart kept decreasing,
And now you are lifeless.
May be
No further breaking is now possible.
You are as intact and stoic
As a huge stone.
Picture design Anumita Roy
Neelam Saxena, author of 84 books, holds three Limca Book of Records titles. She has received prestigious honours, including the Sohanlal Dwivedi Puraskar from the Maharashtra State Hindi Sahitya Akademi, the Premchand Award from the Ministry of Railways, the Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Award, the Freedom Award from Radio City, the Setu Excellence Award, and the Reuel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, Forbes India listed her among the 78 most popular authors in India, celebrating her literary excellence.
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