The Geraniums

A lyrical, bitter-sweet poem by Dr Tirthankar – exclusively for Different Truths.

Give her the right of way,
the woman gave the geraniums one day more
to breathe before being away.
 
A drop of the sun in a broken cup
was all the light she had
in her little room, three steps up,

 
in a house dreary and bleak,
with a cat for a companion
on a bed that creaked.
 
From the windowsill, the geraniums
cried for the right of way
to be given to the woman
in a shrieking ambulance.

Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths