World is not an easy thread

Poetry

Vaishali Paliwal
Nov 1 · 1 min read
Sadness (Two in boat) Nicholas Roerich 1939. Public Domain

This night too

fluttering with silence

after loud noises of grieving mouths

and glasses of liquor clashing

with window panes

behind rich rooms

of ambitious swimmers

falls the same

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Vaishali Paliwal

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