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                     ( Published in ‘The Phoenix’ in Summer ,1999)

Between you and me there falls

the shadow of a fractured  remembrance ;

between then and now the silhouette

of a frightened embrace.

Here in this mind there reigns

a century of chill and disgust

smokes from brackish blood

feed ghosts of dead lust .

Isn’t it a pity that fingers  so creative

try to catch ecstasy at the dead end

lips utter but indistinct words of love

at  the river’s  dark bend !

‘Betrayal ‘ is a vague word

In the corridors of heart

now  I have to move from stalemate

for a new  life to restart .

@copy right : saroj k. padhi . 31/01/15