Theme: Words

Wily Words

How can you trust them?
These playthings, these fashions.
People play with words.
They ploy with meanings
to suit their words.
 
Their words are like sores on skin:
you prick them and they ooze out
an unwelcome meaning―
How can you count on them?
 
Their words are bangers
you test-fire, detonating
with an unwelcome din.
How can you heed them?
 
You trust only workaday words,
as shopworn as mops, as scoured
and scarred as a cutting board.
Always the quotidian and
never a gemstone.

12-May-2025

More By  : Dr. Kanwar Dinesh Singh

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