Meeting the Prophetess

We present this work in honor of Dr. Ambdekar Jayanti.

04-14 Meena
Meena Kandasami
Indian
b. 1984

 

Leave your books behind.

Since memory,
Like knowledge, is a traitor,
Erase every hoarding of your horrible past.

At last, when you enter her world
Of fraying edges and falling angels
Don’t barter words where touch will do and be the truth.
For once allow her silence to sear, strip your life-layers
Because she who knows the truth will not know the tale.

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