A Question to Sunrise
By: Anushka Sharma
Nowadays often, I ask myself,
I stare outside the window and I ask myself,
The train crawls on broken tracks
The sun burns the shattered backs
As the soul dies and the body collides
I ask myself: what is a dead body?
The rotten visage, an animalistic cadaver
Because animals weep to their mothers on sunless nights
Because humans make me sleep to the sound of a wailing child
I ask myself: why is animosity bad and humanity good
I ask myself: what is a dead body?
Body and soul; Aristotle and Dante
The soul is humane; The body remains
Blues and greens/purple and reds
Bruising arms/hands and legs
The body dies at midnight; it's a sunless night
The birds screech in the fear that humanity creates.
Animosity crawls into kindness that humanity erased.
I ask myself: what is a dead body?