An enigmatic poem about love and identity, by Sudhansu, exclusively for Different Truths.
I extend all my gathered appealing looks towards you
All that I have from my inception in the womb
I am but to live on your choice
Do not you feel my pulse for a moment?
You have spread all your sweet conspiracy around me
Your soft palms are full of thorns
That makes me bleed without a complain
Because I know not your cunning words
You have laid before me all my unbecomings
In a calculated manner
With your careful guidance
To justify your majestic value
Because you are my father
My words do not reach your in capable years
That dissolves in the silent space
Just once look at me!
Let me grow just like me
And try to understand
Why I want to grow just like me?
I can carry the burdens of intelligence
But
But can you carry the burdens of innocence?
Help me grow just like me
And try to understand
Why I want to grow just like me?
Kill me not, save me but
My loving guide.
©Dr. Sudhansu Dash
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Dr Sudhansu Dash has bagged the International Elite Writer’s award in English poetry (2014). His anthologies, ‘The Stories of the Insider’, ‘A flying Without Wings’, ’Painting the Silence’, Behind the Shadow’ Returning to Carbon’ ‘The Unopened Window’,’ It is She’ ‘The Broken Sky’ and ‘The Secret Design’ have international publications in the United States. Many articles too have been published in international journals. He is a Lecturer in English in Dhenkanal district, Odisha.
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