Blood!

Blood! What else

Defines, you and me, us

Blood, what else

Defies, you and me, us

Blood! What else

Blood out of lips

And organs, while we made love, violent, for

We wanted to taste each other and pass through

Blood out of eyes

And ears, blinded and deafed of scars, for

We saw and heard, stories of each other

Blood out of skins, half-burnt, half shrank, for

We hugged and rolled on together

Blood out of palm and feet

For we held our hands and walked together

Blood out of throat, half cut, half burst, for

We sang songs of being together, sinned

Blood out of veins

And flesh, torn apart by bombs, at war, for

We decided to make friends with each other, worse!

Blood! What else

Makes us stand and dictate, for what we are

Blood, what else

Makes us kneel and beg, for who we are

Blood! What else

Blood out of words

For we scribbled by pen made of bones of dead

Blood out of paper, blank

For tears and sweat of past couldn’t drench it enough

Blood out of fingers

For we held onto piece of blade, piece of you and me

Piece of us, for too long

Blood out of hearts

For it couldn't beat any longer to keep us alive

But, wished to see us cry, wished to see us die.

By: Praveen Parasar

Date: 01/03/2015