Pain
written by: Viji Narayan
@viji28
I feel like a stranger
A day after the onslaught of pain,
Fighting like a doe in a tiger’s clutch
Trying hard to mitigate it with pain killers-
I am totally exhausted!
I feel like that
Faded
Tattered
Threadbare
Cloth with so many holes
Hanging alone on the yonder clothesline!
I have been washed
Bleached
Beaten to the core
All energy squeezed out
I slump into my
Garden chair and
My limp heart tries to find out
How much longer?
Counting hardly yield any answers –
May be till the threads of that cloth
Dissolve into thin air?
I shudder!
Viji Narayan is a bilingual writer from Coimbatore in Southern India. She loves to pen her deeper thoughts into poems. Her poems and articles regularly get published in popular Indian newspapers as well as many international online literary journals. Her works are part of many anthologies.
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