Born Dead

by Pranab Ghosh / November 11th, 2018

She lay dead…

The cradle that
Rocked her
Could not
Lull her to sleep.

She stayed
Awake…
All through her
LIFE

In search of that
SLEEP
Blessed…
That peace
Blessed…
That love
Blessed…

Now she is
Dead!

Is she blessed?

• Postscript: Rebellions happen only to die!

Pranab Ghosh is a journalist, writer, poet, translator and blogger. His blog is “Existential Problems”. His poems and prose have been published by several on=line publications including Dissident Voice, Spillwords, The Piker Press, Setu Magazine, Pangolin Review, Visual Verse, etc. Pranab has coauthored a book of poems, titled Air & Age; a translation of a book of Bengali short stories, “Bougainvillea and Other Stories” (English translation title). His second book of poems and first solo book, “Soul Searching and Other Poems” (2017), was published by Scarlet Leaf Publishing, Toronto. His second collection of poems, “Vision of the World and Other Poems”, was published by Impspired.com in November 2020. Read other articles by Pranab.

This article was posted on Sunday, November 11th, 2018 at 8:03am and is filed under Poetry.