Bleached words
devoid of emotion spill,
and sometimes, slip from
the tip of my tongue
into yours –
living, breeding, forming
a vocabulary of its own
like cancer cells.
The dichotomy
of my soul lies
shrouded
in your presence. .....
Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in over two dozen international anthologies, and her poems, erasures, haiku & tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She is also the founding editor of the literary and arts journal,Sonic Boom.
