TIME

Sit  beside  the  sucker  of  youth
Believe  tales  of  beauty
Remind your  self  of  bone  China
Delicateness .  Growing up is losing
  good  blood.

Be  born  in  her  womb
Give  up  attachment
Marry , assume  the  love  
of  children.

Sunken  face  protruding  jaws  
Skeleton  in  a  nightie
One  breast  left-what  can  cancer  her
More  than  my  silence?
Endless  questions---we  ask  each  other.

Collect  memories-like  anything  you  would  
Collect--mother  has  moved  through  life
like  a  comet- a  tail  illusionary  --I  watch.

She fixes  up  with  all  those  dead  souls
Speaking  to  spirits  and  I  now  believe, 
They  answer  to  her  roll  call  where 
She  fixes  up a  site,  in  between
A  favorite  granduncle  and  a  brother
lost  in  childhood.

The  future  I  have  to  think  of
A  flight  into  the  tomorrows
My  energetic  son, my  jelly  fish  daughter
Relish  the  present,
The expanse   I  hold  in  my  palm
Like  a  jet  travelling  into  poesy,
And  poetic    space.
Time.


Sivakami Velliangiri

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