You are part of this
yet if you tremble, trip and fall
it is all gone-
they trample
it is stampede
your own it is..
you came together
to reach for the heavens
and wash all sins-
your only mistake was
to have tripped
and theirs
not to have....
A. Thiagarajan -- a.thiagarqajan@sgcib.com
-- lives in Mumbai, India. A postgraduate in English, he taught
in colleges and now works for a bank. He has been writing in English
and Tamil. His work (poems, haiku, short-stories and articles) has
appeared in SubtleTea, Poetic Diversity, A Little Poetry, Poetry
Canada, Ygdrasil, Lililitreview, Tinywords, The Heron's Nest, Haiku
Harvest, Moongate, Cloudspeak, Argotistonline, Velvetillusion, Mainichi,
among others etc.
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