Carcass is a poem written by Nisha Raviprasad and shared with The Ugly Writers under the theme Owning Your Light
Into my broken spirit
pranced the dusty air
wake up! cried the urban logs
mutilated, ugly faces
loomed into my head
My head is empty
so is this tomb I live in
no shiny pebbles with me
just rugged rocks for keeps
Wake up! cried a dying crow
come lay beside me
in death, you shall find solace.
I want to drink the sunset whole, and wear the…
Calm. Placid. The river of love rages with emotion. Yet…
Not just drops of salty water
but remnants of painful slaughter
of heart and the soul perhaps the psyche
of a person who did not know the
way to beg for consideration or mercy
Bare fingers stretch the feeling-bands, the poet poseur, Bakes his poems on a fire, he says, that blanches his heart:
A fire that blanches his heart, makes breathing hard and feeds his art.
Sometimes, we ought to be grateful for our losses. Losing someone is a defeat, but having known someone and having able to spend time with that person is a victory in surrender
