Tuesday, September 23, 2008

On the brink!


The last minute arrived
Explosive and fatal to life.
Prayers and chants
Enveloped the air.

On the brink of death,
He confessed.

His wait was over!
But... no explosion?
In the deafening silence
His question remained...

3 comments:

BlunderingMasks said...

i am impressed woman!

Shruti Sareen said...

hmmm... nice!! critiquing religion eh... I hope I managed to understand it right... it's good, shivika... and it's good that you sued the first person to begi the poem... I have heard people say that it's better that ways... rather than the third person all the time...

Shivika Mathur said...

well I intended it to be a short story initially but ended up writing a poem, not really abt religion but tragedy and futility of love in present times...gosh!!! M I a pessimist!!!