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Jenny Bhatt

After a long battle with the day

With darkness

And incessant clamoring

I am made to feel apologetic, even foolish

For being concerned with needs

Beyond those of the flesh

But like food,

Light too

Is a cry of the cell








A few brain cells died today

Owing to a glass of floating reflections

A mind numbed against reality

Or a convoluted version of it

Were they indispensable?

Maybe.

To question in futility

Some answers acquired

Some beyond reach in a lifetime

Anxiety and Memory gone with them too

Jenny Bhatt is an artist, writer and cartoonist. She lives in Mumbai

This copy is posted as it was received. It has not been edited by TLM

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