A Fine Symmetry

Mad Mary

How long have you been wandering?

With two feet in this world and thoughts elsewhere

Carrying your life in a bundle of dirty clothes 

Sheltering in dilapidated temples or bus stops


Drowned in the ebb and flow of bedlam days

You scold all with acid words 

Your perennial wrath is sharp

When those stones hit their target


How do you spend your nights?

Counting the stars spiritedly 

Or the lice on your disheveled hair

Or in constant vigil to keep off all human contact?


Are you to remain an unanswered question forever?

On which skewed plan has mother nature counted you in?

Oh, you are not to be deemed a scheme gone wrong?

You are as proper as one gets?


Sweet dear Mary,

That mischievous smile says it all


Renjitha K. R.

Assistant Professor of English, Al Shifa College of Arts and Science, Kizhattoor Perinthalmanna 

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