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you are beautiful,
you seem happy,
you are nice
you are cute,
you are sweet,
but you are mute,
because i see you only in the screen..
In the barren land of a lonely place,
near a village of northern face,
there was a bar where people came,
after the hard day with the penny they made,
some drink to forget their past,
and some to start another day,
no matter the season the place was always
full to pay.

On a chilly night of december evening,
the door opened with an unfamiliar face,
judging by the pace he had a rough day and
a mess,
they stared at him with gazing eyes,
looking as if he was cold as an ice,
face full of beard and eyes soaked by tears,
he asked the bartender for a drink to cheer,
in return he was asked where was he from
and what was his story.

He started his memoir of the past taking a sip,
remembered all at once with a breathe long dip,
Zalta was the place where i was born,
lived with parents,family and brothers along,
until the day the place was hit with dispute,
and declared a war on the following day.

His brothers ran and so was he told,
but he remained with his parents and the war
unfold,
his wife and daughters kept him holding and
believing,
until the storm hit their gates without their willing,
parents shot dead,wife and daughters ***** and killed,
in front of his eyes till he was dead within.

He was shot in arms and legs and left there to die,
pain and grief withheld, no tears to cry,
he woke up with a dead soul and a wounded body,
teared was the heart with sheer misery,
broken bones and tattered soul,
finished his drink with another sip of smelly foul.
Those gazing eyes are now filled with tears,
nothing they said, just the silence to hear,
he paid his bill and left the place,
in search to cure his soul with holy grace,
emotions were dead so was his spirit,
in search of some place where he could die
in peace.
 Jun 2017 Vikshipta
Edward Coles
They say the house ached
with an energy
his chord *****
haunting the A/C hum
colours crawl out
of failed cartoons
in schizotypal terror
dismembered icy blues
that take in everything
through bloodied stems
the retired boxer
******* the umbilical
with his head carved open
to dementia and night terrors

They say the desk-lamp shook
from pill-induced tremors
the anxiety of perfection
never borne out in creation
eternal battles between
pleasure and Satan
between the chorus line
and bouts of sanity
two self-portraits
twin the whitewashed wall
one frail and brilliant
with gaunt fears of hell
the other fat and docile
in the face of death.
On Daniel Johnston
C
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