To take a homeopathic approach to the soul is to deal with the darkness in ways that are in tune with the dark.

                THOMAS MOORE

It’s taken time

to realise

no one survives.

Not even the ordinary.

Time to own up then

to blue throat

and gall bladder extraordinaire,

to rages pristine,

guilt unsmeared

by mediocrity,

separation traumas

subcontinental

and griefs that dare

to be primordial.

Time to iron out

a face corrugated

by perennial hope,

time to shrug off

the harlotry

and admit

there’s nothing hygienic

about this darkness –

no potted palms,

no elevator music.

I erupt from pillars,

half-lion half-woman.

The floor space index I demand

is nothing short

of epic.