Dr.
Ram Krishna Singh
(Indian Poet of Eminence)
(Indian Poet of Eminence)
Former Professor of English
IIT-ISM, Dhanbad
India
The crowded lift and emptiness of the flat
doesn't help me resurrect what's gone
late at night I may pile hopes on a pale paper
trying to invent a new life to live with
end up seized by pain trolling in the shady light
double bed, blank mirror, and still greyer dawn
the pillow hurts, the image derides, the prayers fail
the roaring inside, the ghostly silence
and unfading darkness. I'm no Odysseus
but keep straying against the waves.