Poetry

Checking the Decomposition

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My whisky glass broke,

It cracked along the circumference

Sitting on the bar cabinet

Without the drink.

I hadn’t been drinking all night

And I wondered where the crack

Came from.

The gleaming fissure

Looked like part of the design.

I dug a three feet deep pit

Near the compound wall

To lay the broken glass

And wait for it to decompose.

I read somewhere

It takes 5K years

For glass to decompose

Under natural conditions,

I am prepared to wait that long

To check the truth myself.

 

~Saranyan BV 

Bangalore, India

2 Comments

  1. Ramadas
    May 23, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    Thanks Saranyan, for yet another creative bloom. For a connoisseur of Soma rasa and a dreaming poet – lost in their ethereal passion, time and space never mean anything. In a sense they dive into eternity.

  2. Ramadas
    May 23, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    Thanks Saranyan, for yet another creative bloom. For a connoisseur of Soma rasa and a dreaming poet – lost in their ethereal passion, time and space never mean anything. In a sense they dive into eternity.