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 “Helplessness”. This poem is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 31☆
☆ Helplessness ☆
There are those edgy instants
When you become a heated oven
And tiny grains of excruciating anger puff up,
They hit the grey steel walls
Of the ventricles of your heart
With high velocity,
Making you lose your steadiness.
Before those tender grains
Flare up like pale yellow popcorns,
It’s better to freeze them
In the refrigerator of time.
After some point,
When you take out those icy grains,
You expect them to cool your being…
Unfortunately,
They blue-pencil the white ribs
Surrounding the heart
With a razor like sharpness!
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