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About Usha Akella

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Original Language
English
I am afraid for myself

Themes
  Light
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

En(compass): The Poetry Caravan Anthology, by Usha Akella
Kali Dances, So Do I...: Poems, by Usha Akella

I am afraid for myself
Ever since your visit or was it a visitation
your light has been lodged in me,
now I drift somnolent, heady and
the light doesn't stop seeping from my eyes,
people are transfixed by this light,
I ask God-What is this madness?
This madness of carrying another person within me,
God replies-How can you know me if you don't know this madness?



- from "A face that does not bear the footprints of the world"

 

 

 

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