Nefertiti
written by: Joy Moitra
@JoyMoitra2
I was at the bar
When she came
And sat by me
Our thighs grazed each other’s
As she looked straight into my eyes
Reading criss-crosses on my forehead
You’ve been long dead, she said
With a deadpan face
Didn’t you know that?
I stumbled for words
Floundering through memories
Cobbled lanes
Really, I asked;
She didn’t answer straight
But looked at my eyes red
It was then I remembered her name
The ‘she’ of my troubled dreams
Nefertiti, from an ancient land
Nefertiti, maiden of Thebes
Nefertiti Neferneferuaten
Didn’t know you had slayed me then!
Joy Moitra
Joy Moitra would like to introduce himself as someone who likes to juggle with words in his spare time. He loves playing with them and drawing word-pictures. He is a service-industry professional who lives in Kolkata with his wife, daughter and sister. His first book of short poems Fragments & Frames was launched at the Kolkata Book Fair on 8 February 2020.
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