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Poem: Hot — About A Blistering Compliment from A Stranger! Screams a voice in the dark. A shadowy figure stops me on my way, to tell me loudly and insidiously,“I am hot!” Three words — that’s all it takes, to reduce my existence to a transient feeling.
“You’re hot!”
Screams a voice in the dark A shadowy figure stops me on my way, to tell me loudly and insidiously,
“I am hot”
Three words — that’s all it takes, to reduce my existence to a transient feeling
A sensation.
A weather.
A temperature.
Takes me a moment to gather, to come to my senses rather What just happened, I wonder And there it comes, my epiphany
“Hot”
Oh, I feel all degrees of it I feel the heat rising in my marrow But you see I hold it together as the lane looks dark and narrow
The heat arising from that word burns my skin Though looks like blush, it’s my acidic anger akin In a blip, a compliment turns into an insult But my wrath rests as my reason must come first My telomeres shrinking from the anger I repressed silence envelops me, and yet remains the palpable stress
In a moment, stress switches its place with fear And what was just mine, now becomes his, The lines get deeper on his temples, He saw fate in my eyes, I thought Panic engulfs the whole air A screech and sudden retraction, he zooms away in second gear.
He flees the scene like the coward he is I feel victorious as if, as if…
I am the cause…
I turn around, just to cut my joy short without a doubt What changed my fate wasn’t my anger but silhouettes of unsuspecting men walking about.
Image source: Jacob Varghese from studio India, Free On CanvaPro
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