A Thousand Splendid Suns

Image Source: Sanjay Ghoshal

Lock

And

as

we

kissed

and

let

our hands

travel

over

the topography

(hashtag wanderlust)

of

years of stretches

and

lines

and

scar(e)s,

I

found

a

key

on a

chain around his waist.

I

asked

what it opened

“I

like

the presence

of

the key.”

He

smiled

with

a

thousand

splendid suns

in

his eyes

and

withering

flowers on his neck.

“I

like

the

absence

of

a lock.”

Writing a series of poems based on book titles along with Neville Craig Kumar. This one is based on Khalid Hosseini’s ‘Thousand Splendid Suns’.