Low Tide

Staring at her beautiful heaving breasts,
drinking the nectar of her sweet dreams’ smile,
amused by the whims of her delicate silhouette,
he slept in a confused solitude.

A lifetime he had spent in the closed eyes, hoping
to find a longing in the depth of their blackness,
searching for a search in return.

As every turn of the hourglass stained
his inebriation with cold splashes of blood
familiar in its vanishing warmth,

accouchement resembled a dank prison floor;
silences began to lose their tranquility and spat out,
in spasms, the violent desolate.

And excavated reasons only pricked him
like a rare cactus in that barren landscape.
In scattered tangibles within those spaces
he wept in a disturbance, alone.

© 2007 Ritwik Banerjee

Low Tide by
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