Sometimes, meaningless
has a meaning
that fails to reach.
The purpose
of the unpurposed,
as it were.
Years later, it breezes in
like the last line
of a forsaken poem.
You wore your brokenness
like a country drapes its flag.
In your insecurity,
I located my surety.
Our edifice was wobbly:
We had to wallow in its weakness.
Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry and been published in over thirty-five countries. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. Highly Commended in the erbacce-prize 2024 for poetry with over 9000 submissions worldwide, Sethi lives in Mumbai, India.
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