Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Half”. This poem is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 29☆
☆ Half ☆
The frozen evening is buckling her thoughts,
Long emptiness covers the eyelids-
She is afraid to leave it open,
Lest it attack the world with a vengeance,
And if she closes it,
The void powerfully sucks her body,
Fragmenting her into pieces!
She leaves it half-open,
Doing everything partly is the fad of the era;
Words you wish to snarl
Lose their velocity as they glue to your lips,
You dare not let them be free for fear of reactions,
Nor do you let them remain within for the hurt they cause,
And they voicelessly stutter on the pink edges…
Following the trend has only been an easy option,
Only she doesn’t know what to do with the swollen heart
That has accumulated emotions all around!
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
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