by Fabiyas M V
I feel I’m everywhere, free and wispy. I find love and loss in the wet eyes. How long will I linger in your hearts? Strange were my dreams in the final earthly phase; the unknown lands and the divine vibes. How fast the body bloats! But my beauty will never be disfigured in your minds. The funeral rite is a reverence for me. Each generation has its own foolish but virtuous beliefs. I lost my pleasures in the man-made complications. I had to live with hypocrisies. Even my hyena-eyed enemy is among the mourners. But I’m behind a silence. I realize the insignificance of the body that carried me. It’s still and stinky in my absence. I will soon return to the old void to reappear somewhere as fresh as a banana shoot. First published in Maltrop (Budding Light Press, Australia). Winning poem in the Creative Writing Ink Monthly Contest (April 2021).