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Poem

Gagan Gill

Just For a Day

Just for a day

She won’t think
of you

And the fish will forget
Their way about water

The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit

The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck

Just for a day

She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon


And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried

Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts

Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there

Just for a day

You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment

And darkness will befall
The whole of universe

Lava will gather
In the guts of earth

For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells


In just a day’s
oblivion

her body will turn blue
from its own bite

JUST FOR A DAY

Close

Just For a Day

Just for a day

She won’t think
of you

And the fish will forget
Their way about water

The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit

The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck

Just for a day

She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon


And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried

Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts

Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there

Just for a day

You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment

And darkness will befall
The whole of universe

Lava will gather
In the guts of earth

For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells


In just a day’s
oblivion

her body will turn blue
from its own bite

Just For a Day

Just for a day

She won’t think
of you

And the fish will forget
Their way about water

The sun will be suspended
Burning helpless in the orbit

The umbilical chord will coil and strangle
Time’s own neck

Just for a day

She, oblivious
will place her lamp
between the sun and the moon


And the seven sages in the sky
Will get worried

Letters will fly away
Falling off the scripts

Creatures will forget their faces
And no mirrors will be there

Just for a day

You will go
Into an ethereal mist
For a moment

And darkness will befall
The whole of universe

Lava will gather
In the guts of earth

For miles
snails will burn
inside their shells


In just a day’s
oblivion

her body will turn blue
from its own bite
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