Still Burning

by Kingshuk Chakraborty

Behind the blanket of smog

You let it burn.

That curtain of yours, I still wonder

Whether to hold the fire

Or turn it to embers!

But it grew wild

In darkness,

Locked me in my chamber

Ran me out of breath

I cried,

Pleaded,

Clamored for

A fist of fresh air,

A bit of sunshine

The end of silence.

And then

Helplessly I broke open a spire

A tie, an amour, an entanglement

That silently

Swells in ocean and blossoms on pyre!

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