i.

to a faraway brook
I ask the pain of two drops
refusing to let go.

do two lies cancel each other out
or do they stack, if they stack
how long until it becomes
a language of its own, if become
what is truth called
in this babelic tongue?

ii.

to some dead poet-

why do I follow a thought you left behind
what were the signs, bread-crumbs
on the path time kidnapped by?

was it just words, there should have been
something more.

should - shoulds should not be allowed,
it gives too much power to one over the other.

the some dead poet should not be dead.

you should try to talk more, you should
smile better. what do I know
what you should or should not do.

~Ajay
13/12/2019