The Heart Speaks

In foggy morning

voice of remembrances

screams into the lonely sky.

The inscriptions

submerged with tears

as the old mother

gently caresses

over the tomb nourishing

the wounds  of war

of her lonely son.

Epitaphs (Eds. Kiriti Sengupta and William P Peters Sr.)

Published by Inner Child Press, New Jersey and Shambhabi Imprint, Calcutta 2014.