The Goal


Perched on dilapidated ventilators of silence
Words twitter non-stop
discarding puffed feathers
from uttered drops
Like stale habits
they gyrate
in the airs embrace
Sweating together
in a pure drop
Melting
pouring
greasing
scoring
the long awaited goal
Creatures one and all.

Shama Shukla

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