A powerful and an intense poem by Elsy, in Different Truths.

The ache that burnt
into conscience
grew into a blaze.
It was doused,
but then the soul
went up in flames!
Which is more agonizing?
muffling the conscience
or mashing the soul?
Unheeding the guilty prick,
or neglecting the call of soul?
Is it not more benign
to be unfair to oneself,
than to another’s self?
What if it calls for
the sagacity of a sage
or the forbearance of a stoic!

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Elsy Satheesan

Elsy Satheesan is a retired Professor of English. She had been teaching in colleges under the Govt. of Kerala, India. Currently, she resides in Virginia, USA. ‘Random Musings’ is her first volume of poems. ‘Summer Snow’, is the forthcoming one. Her poems have been published in national and international anthologies. Short stories in Malayalam have been published in weekly and fortnightly, in Kerala. Humanity is her religion, and poetry, her passion.

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