POETRY | NAPOWRIMO

My Dying Art, My Dying Dream

NaPoWriMo Series Day-8

Picture by Author (Arundhati Thakur)

It’s not that I’m angry,
It’s not that I despise existence,
but the presence of all this substance,
however tiny and insignificant in
an ever-expanding galaxy,
all this facade of an electric life,
scratching diaries, looping in habits,
inhabiting shoeboxes off of credits,
hoping to capitalise on your ART someday,
and…