Nivedita Dey
I parent a primal poison
womb inside my skull
Head, the strongest love
Tail, the biggest betrayal
I bear a stamped face
behind my well-masked
Count crow’s feetgrowing
Longer, uglier than hers
She spills me as a vomit
She pronounces me a puke
My own Lady Macbeth, she
I, her foreboding forbidden fruit
The twin torments within
Minotaur under my skin
Half Hamlet, half Ophelia, I
Cleft between love and loathing
Forever hope, forever die