Saturday, 1 November 2025

Poetry 2025 Longlist, Ananya Varadarajan

 Not Easy


Booking a return ticket

Breathing constricted

Summer has ended

Mourning its own demise


Got on the wrong train

Cried and cried

Where is it headed?

Don't want to ask


Open my mouth

Only sobs come out

Tears are salty

Swallow them up


Get off at the next station

Packed with people

Sound the pipe of my tribe

No one answers the call


Blue? Black? White?

Bit of all?

No. Grey? Maybe.

But not easy

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