Remember Nirvana? Nevermind
The child resurfaces.
The morning has no colour yet.
Some smoke signals sketch
a message of constant and calm distress.
A neighbour see the child first.
It toddles, skids and falls
on the dew wet street.
The child cannot say anything
about the time eclipsed,
time, a mystery, and the time
the parents dream as a body of blue fluids.
The child swims until a ransom baits it out.
Kushal Poddar is the author of Postmarked Quarantine has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe. X/Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe