Author: Reena Saxena

We all have our crosses to bear, problems that cause trouble or worry which may continue over a long period of time.  Some of the things that go bump in the night turn out to be real and she experienced creatures lurking in the shadows, monsters hiding underneath her bed and living in her closet and she was always too frightened to go into the basement.  She knows that people think she is crazy, but most of her life has been like a being on a tour through Dante’s nine circles of hell.  What is “normal,” anyway?  Are any of us normal?  Aren’t we all a little crazy in one way or another?  Maybe a line needs to be draw somewhere, so it is never crossed.  What caused this transformation in her life, where did she go wrong?

Her uncle groped her when she was nine and the kids in the…

Read me like a book
Bending open my flat spine
Preserve my pages
Or dog ear random corners
Peruse at nightfall
Reading by soft lantern light
Or read in the park
Lying in the grass sunlit
I’ve no dust jacket
Breathe into me your laughter
Read through unceasing
Or leisurely taking breaks
Place with care to pause
I am words long lingering
You remember me
There I am if you forget
Your favorite book
Return to me forever
Putting me on a shelf not

A chōka, written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge about alternatives.

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #286

Supreme court judges

open the shop

even when on holidays

enjoying cultural program

a phone call

and they are on they are

toes

to oblige the

rich and powerful

scamsters

killers

who can afford a highly paid successful lawyer

media and police also support them

they get bail easily

even solid proofs are against them

and

enjoy their life

whereas

poor and weak

of the society

waiting to be heard

years after years

for their chance

patiently

even if their crime is petty

till My lords have time and will

to hear their cases

to whom they promise to serve

when joining the post

what alternative do

we poor have

we request on tweeter

we tag them

we tag

our Prime Minister

our Home Minister

our

law minister

to get

the reply

believe in our judiciary system

we canunite and change…