Monday, 27 November 2023

The lady in a rainy dusk

 

Like a  lightning flashes with thunder 

To reassure against the gloomy grey

Her frail frame supports oversized garb

As if the overstretched penumbra 

Cloaks the feebleness with his pretence

It is a rainy dusk on her return from work

An eager ear wary of tip toe from corners

And an eye on lurking shadow of the day

The wick smolders from an unfinished day

The smoke is yet to enter the exhaust 

For the dawn will now unwrap itself 

And interrogate the missing hands of clock

With a smaller foot stretched to hold the shoe

She stomps assuringly on the pot holes 

Then the smile that awaits her with open arms

Erases the grey of the vibrant day.


Delhi

22.52 hrs

2103

27.11.23

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