The Stony Heart

by Satish Verma   Feb 15, 2022


Looking in your hazel
eyes, I was thinking.

I don't need
second coming. I want
you once for all.

After assassination
of a live truth, I will wear
a cap without an emblem.
I was moving away from the crowd,
after burning the dead.

Why it was so loud?
It was a gratuity? After the
bloodbath, do you still need a bank?

My God, I am tired
of you. Seeds were scattered
for the love birds. I don't find the
moon break.

No about-face
I was still proceeding
towards the lake of tears.

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  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    "I don't need
    second coming. I want
    you once for all."
    This stanza that might seem clumsy in the eyes of mediocre is so powerful, expressing the ultimate contentment in the unfit world which constantly is looking for ultimate change, ultimate redeemer.
    Though still one could argue that the "YOU' would be impossible before second coming. ( just saying)
    Your poetry is brimful of these fantastic imagery and comparisons.

    But some part are for me unsatisfactory like: " proceeding towards the lake of tears." Why lake, why not ocean? what is significant about the lake here, lesser body of water? And proceeding here doesn't express a poetical anticipation that much for me.
    And again:
    "It was a gratuity? "
    "Was it" you mean?
    Though I know you are too meticulous to make these errors. So still the reason of misplace question-marks in your works deludes me.

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