Wednesday, May 29

Paper Boats

Parting is a gift.
If part You must 
Like ashes and dust
Then part unbroken.
It is an Art.
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Funerals are
Those long rituals. 
The needless drama
Only to drop a body 
to a pit's hungry stones, 
some skin, some bones. 

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And let's now come to you and I. 
We drifted apart like paper boats
in puddles dried in sudden sun 
after a very good monsoon
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