Poetry Part 2

I’m really not a poetry guy (I swear!) but this is the other bit of poetry that gets me every time I read it…

Opening the door

of the fortress

a shaft of light

enters through

the brass lock

lighting up

the temple idol

touching its feet

and sweeping upwards

to reveal an

enigmatic smile

– in this dark foreboding

fortress –

only the pigeon flutters.

- Satish Gupta