by Fabiyas M V
I feel I’m everywhere,
free and wispy.
I find love and loss in the wet eyes.
How long will I linger in your hearts?
Strange were my dreams
in the final earthly phase;
the unknown lands
and the divine vibes.
How fast the body bloats!
But my beauty will never be disfigured
in your minds.
The funeral rite is a reverence for me.
Each generation has its own foolish
but virtuous beliefs.
I lost my pleasures
in the man-made complications.
I had to live with hypocrisies.
Even my hyena-eyed enemy is
among the mourners.
But I’m behind a silence.
I realize the insignificance
of the body that carried me.
It’s still and stinky
in my absence.
I will soon return to the old void
to reappear somewhere
as fresh as a banana shoot.
First published in Maltrop (Budding Light Press, Australia).
Winning poem in the Creative Writing Ink Monthly Contest (April 2021).