Searing Heat

Folder: 
Satish Verma

An ascetic dies in a shoe 
spilling blood. 
A surreal moon 
wants to investigate – 

a sectarian divide of 
fraudulent sky. 
And you want to be buried 
under rose petals – 

courting controversies 
to clean the polluted river. 
A lifeboat was needed 
to take you for a quiz – 

singing national anthem. 
Emblematic, 
You were sharpening 
your nails.