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The Enemy Within

Author Meher Pestonji 0 824
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An evocative body poem, as Meher describes it, exclusively for Different Truths.

I live at the mercy of a liver
that dictates what I can eat
what I can’t drink
even determines
the colour of
my skin.
 
Have a field day, fiend!
 
Force me to see
with a jaundiced eye.
 
The trouble is, I need
your cooperation
to survive.
 
But by obeying
I can shrink you
back to size.

Picture design by Anumita Roy


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Meher Pestonji is a veteran journalist writing on street kids, housing rights, and communalism while covering theatre, art and interviewing creative people. She has written two novels, Pervez and Sadak Chhaap, three plays, ‘Piano for Sale’, ‘Feeding Crows’ ‘Turning Point’ and short stories. Her first collection of poems will be out shortly.

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