Battle Of Breaths Poem by Saroj Padhi

Million frictions of various kinds relating to matters

petty, big, domestic, familial, social as well as official

unpaid school bills, chokes in toilet pipes, foul gutters

fused cutouts, forgotten marriage parties, blunt refusal;



see how tendrils of passion recoil at the thousand denials

of hectic marital life with its sickening hastes and wastes,

one French kiss a day is a dream and emptied nuptial ties

threaten to crumble into pieces thro' partners' silly quests;



when the other (wo) man has started looking more seductive

and children are big enough to freely pursue own interests

when chemicals are derailed on the platform of true mating

one needs to sit back awhile and think of renewing the zests;



then sensual Moon of awareness blooms in the bedroom sky

and thro' intimate battle of breaths, ties fly to a new high.