Two  drops   of unnamed tears

Dr Sudhansu Dash

The sun sets

In the depth of darkness

The new- come bride inside the cottage

Looks with two waiting eyes

The return of her own man.

Time knows

When she sleeps

Burring her face under a torn cloth

Carrying endless pain inside

The pains of a wounded bird.

The unheard wounds of the late night

Vibrates her hidden body and mind

She opens the door in sleepy eyes

With two unstable feet.

The smell of alcohol comes from

The mouth of her man

She accepts with an unassuming fear

But a resignining look settled on her empty eyes

Shivering with wordless pain and fear.

A word trying to escape the two lips

 melts down before consolidating its strength.

The morning comes before testing her own luck.

She extends her intimacy again

Her man returns again to bridge the confidence

Among a thousand and one promises

Leaving her to  gather her broken remains

In two drops of unnamed tears.