Off-Limits

Folder: 
Satish Verma

There was a soul-searching 
after a negative assassination 
tearing my past, my future. 

Beneath the burden 
lies the mountain of bail-outs. 
You don’t feel whole 
in shadows of countings. 

The borders were breached 
for lavish darkness 
alive under the full moon. 

Was it a flight risk in a swan 
lake, when you were 
taking a dive to pluck the 
erupting fire of indictment.