Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Word-less


My lines get shorter
and I run out of word 
as heart expands, 
explodes
and collapses:
dust to dust
and no word in between. 

[From the collection 'Stray kites on string-less days']

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9 comments:

  1. you'd better have a heart surgery, it would be such a pity if you ran out of words!!!! :)

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  2. won't make too much of a difference. :)

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  3. fishing for compliments, are we?? :)

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  4. true, whether you believe it or not.

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  5. are you talk about heart surgery or it not making a difference you being word-less? i am talking about the latter.

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  6. ok, we readers decide if it matters or not. And i say, it would be a tragedy if you'd be word-less and i am sure others would agree with me! so you'd better live with it!!!

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