Tandem Hill

Kasturi Barkataki, 15MS

18/05/2019

I'm amid nowhere, I say;

I strung up two beads, but now see them fall in three.

Every path he didn't see-

concealed, moss-laden in me;

From those very roads I picked the stones

the stones he didn't meet.

“Everlasting joy, I trade;

Never rusting faith, you see (?)

I strung up those beads, yet see them fall in three.

Tandem hill- a delusive peace,

Just a cruel scheme to aim at you

those very stones from devil's horns-

the ones you didn't meet.”

“I envy you this moment,

And crush my straw-strong grief,

I envy now your placid eyes,

No mark of judging me (!)”

The third stone still pierces my skin,

Somehow I am loath to part with it.

Clear anguish paints my lifeless lips-

yet I'm unwilling of hammering him.

Tandem Hill- Delusive bliss

Crumbling in its tryst to read-

his eyes pinned to me.