Status-Quo

By Palak Jain

Before baking a bread,

the dullness of the dried dough,

seeps in the spine,

and the starvation is staved with scepticism;

Before reading a revelation,

the loquacity of the laconic liabilities,

irks the iris,

and the inquisitiveness is inoculated with inconsequence;

Before fixing the flowers,

the reek of the rotten remorse,

forsakes the fingers,

and the aesthetics is abolished as abomination;

Before smiling at a stranger,

the denial of a denounced demise,

limps the lips,

and the conversation is culled as confrontation;

Before shedding the skin,

the weight of the wronged woes,

lulls the legs,

and the grimace is gimmicked as getaway.

By Palak Jain