Time...

Glory Sasikala 1964 (Kolkata)



one who was so good at
swallowing feelings
facing life with stoic acceptance
how easily I laugh nowadays!
how easily I cry!
I break even
not knowing how to live
not knowing how to die

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How time and age change one.

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Written on May 25, 2022

Submitted by glorysasikala on May 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 184
Words 38
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Glory Sasikala

Glory Sasikala is a writer, poet and publisher from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Editor and Publisher of GloMag, the international monthly online poetry and prose magazine, and is administrator of the group of the same name on Facebook. She is the creator of ‘The Chennai Ladies’ series of E-books on Amazon.com. more…

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