Mirror tonight show me not
My own reflection.
My tired visage seeks
A change
From melancholia that blights
My sunken cheeks
And has settled itself
In the hollow of my neck.
Mirror tonight haunt me not
With irises darkened from pain
This shroud that hangs loose
In folds around my bones
Feels like foreign skin
That I long to kick away.
Mirror tonight have mercy
Show me a distant dream
When mirth danced on my tongue
And life coursed through my veins.
Show me those dreams
Untempered, untamed
By the caprice of time;
Show me what I could have been
Show me a lie.
Oh, just for tonight mirror
Show me not the truth;
Or here I fling a stone into you
Broken, be you, just as I feel within too.
Copyright Β©2018 Pradita Kapahi.
All rights reserved.
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Good, good.
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You read it that soon? Thank you so much π π π
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I’ve been told that I’m a fast reader.
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And I’m confirming that you are π
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This is high art, Pradita. I hope that it is only art, and not the life real.
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Thanks a lot Lee. Poetry is more autobiographical for me than prose is. This too has fragments of what I feel, though there’s nothing to be worried about. A passing phase I think π
How have you been?
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Alright, Pradita. I spent the night in hospital last Saturday, but things I think are improving.
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OH?! Hospital? I hope everything is alright with you. Do get better soon
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This is soooo good! Have you published your works?
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Thank you so much. If by ‘publishing’ you mean, as a book, no, I haven’t yet π
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Oh! You ought to! They’ll sell like hot cakes!
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Thank you so much, girl ππ
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bahut khubsurat rachna…….apki kavita ne ek kavita likhne ki prerna di….sukriya.
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Thank you Sir. Khushi hui jaan ke ki meri rachna ne apko bhi prerna di. Ab mai intezar karungi aapki kavita ka
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Bilkul kal hi prakashit karne ka prayas karenge…..Sukriya.
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Thank you π
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I think the climax of a poem lies in its last two lines and you just brought it out beautifully.
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Thank you so much Sir π Glad you liked it
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Lovely Pradita.
And mirror will show what I am seeing. And it’s the best
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Thank you KJ. I don’t about being the best but definitely the truest
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And that’s the best π
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That’s true.
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π
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Sheer brilliance on the various facets of the soul’s mirror. You are very expressive with words that doesn’t leave emotions untouched!
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Thanks a lot Vishal. How have you been?
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Been good and busy with work, plus diet again π
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Dieting again? I need to do that too. Got a wedding to attend soon π π π
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Hehe Iβm back with high cholesterolπ Enjoy the shaadi
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Artsonified.
Would love if you read my latest interview
https://theindianindiehead.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/nilein/
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Or be a mirror
of my inner self
Showing I am more
Than passing reflections
Rather
layered beauty. π
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You made it brighter, better. Thank you Simon π
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Most happy to do so. π Regrettably Iβve been a stranger of late.π
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Hey, don’t be sorry. Neither have I. We all have things to do. I hope you have been keeping well π
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Am well, thanks Pradita. Just been busy. Hope you are well too π
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Good to know that. I’m doing well too, thanks for asking π
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