Life of Poem
Devashish Kumar

Many think my journey as Poem
starts when he hits the publish button.
Perhaps because only after
this that they can read me.
But I’ve been here for far too long.
He has spent many laborious hours in
reading, correcting, inserting, deleting,
replacing, arranging, organizing and
repeating the process all over again
until I read sufficiently decent.
He thinks that it starts with
amorphous clouds of words
scrambled haphazardly on some
off white piece of paper.
But I’ve been here for far too long.
I have already spent countless
many hours in his subconscious-
continuously contradicting, concurring,
confirming, confronting, contorting,
conspiring, conciliating and canoodling.
I laugh heartedly whenever I see below
‘Copyrights: Devashish Kumar’
as if he has created me out of some vacuum.
But I’ve been here for far too long.
Oh, he is still too naive.
