Sunil Sharma- A Poem

Words.

Fugitives.

Same.

Both refuse to emerge from hiding places into the open.

Coaxing

Threats do not work.

Sometimes, 

they 

tu-mb-le ou-t and dis-per-se......

like the heavy traffic 

un-clogged 

after a signal failure

in the money-crazy New York.

Dystopia?

Catch them, if you can.

Otherwise, they scatter like the

bullets of a suicide bomber

---that is scary!---

 looks like us!

Mumbai-based, Sunil Sharma is a widely-published Indian critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writer. He has already published three collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction, one novel and co-edited five books so far. His six short stories and the novel Minotaur were recently prescribed for the undergraduate classes under the Post-colonial Studies, Clayton University, Georgia, USA. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. Recently his poems were published in the UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree-2015.