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 “Fear”. This poem is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 27☆
☆ Fear ☆
I hear her shower
A million pricking words
All carefully aimed at me
From the bow of her heart-
Some pass on
From across my ears
Without spilling a single drop
Of my thin red blood,
Some pierce me
In my supple chest
Going deeply through my heart
While the others
Remain in its chamber
Like slow poison,
Killing me little by little!
I don’t retaliate
For I can’t see blood;
I silently let the hurt come out
Through the waterfall of my eyes.
Still unsatisfied,
She tries to knock me down.
I simply get up
And smile like a child,
Seeing me unaffected,
She goes back,
Hurt and defeated.
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
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