How do you read the face
that wears a mask of smile!
Category: English
moonless night
In this season of death
I am tempted to depart
on a dark moonless night
Dark girl in my dream
In my dream I see a dark girl
there is a window with a thin layer of dust
that obscures her face
inside the room there is the last light
of setting sun, the orange beam slitting the door
whispers a bronze sheen on her bare shoulder
outside it is dark, with no escape ladder
I wait on a moonless night
to watch her glow, she moves closer
out of focus, closer still, ah
the face fills the window glass,
that separates us. A breath imprint struggles
to escape the barrier – misty vapours
eatherise the faceless over my lips.
-RA
You live among the graves
You, the ashen alyssum
homing in on dark bushes
breeding maggots
feeding on flesh.
You the fetid parasite
carrion, the rotten stink
a toxin laced tongue
devouring pith.
You, the stench of
malignant blossoms
a venomous creeper, you
had to attract snakes.
You live among the graves
the poison pollinator,
a corpse floret
of foul odour.
You the venin
cloaked in smirk
a shrew, spiked with malice
must be crushed,
must die.
Silence 2
Silence please.
The House is in order.
Under the dome
Green carpets
soaked in blood
echo barbaric silence.
Complicits walk hand in hand
Goons are masters
for they rule the living and the dead.
Governance a slave.
The deity, an accomplice
rides waves of black coats
and saffron fallen leaves.
Paradise mourns humanity.
The Valley laments.
Caressing the corpse
wailing willows lament…
‘Barbarians?
Do you do this
to your daughters?’
12 April 2018
on the abduction, rape by multiple people, and murder of an
8 year old girl inside a devsthanam (temple) in Kathua, Jammu, India.
Ankahi. Unsaid. 
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