I starve …
written by: Dr. MOLLY JOSEPH
I starve
for a morsel
when you
throw down
heaps
of leftovers
you waste up
exhausting
the common
reserves
meant
for you and me..
No, I can’t take
your left overs,
they make me
throw up…
instead,
if you kept
a share apart
fresh for me
or,
invited me
to the corners
of your
luxuriant wedding,
I would
gladly quench
the rebelling
starving
fires within…
I starve
not alone
for food,
but
for the love,
the care
you deny to me…
Dr. Molly Joseph is a professor, poet from Kerala, she has had her Doctorate in Post War American Poetry. Much anthologised, she travels worldwide, writes travelogues, short stories and story books for children. She has published 17 books,13 books of poems, a novel and a story book for children. Her latest work, "Songs of Silence" was released on 14th of May, 2022. She has won several accolades which include Galaxy Award for Experimental Poetry 2019, India Women Achiever’s Award 2020, and the Yannan Gold Medal The Outanding Poet Award from Yanan Literary Society, China 2021. She believes in the power of the word and writes boldly on matters that deal with the contemporary.
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