A MONSTROUS SHADOW:
You have fallen like an autumn leaf from my life though
but I am still living in your monstrous shadow.
The words
that used to fling out of your tongue like a crow still croak like frogs in my psyche.
The stains
with which your hammer-fists stroked my skin still burn in ache.
The manacles
that you used to confine my spirit still make me hobble and stumble.
You have fallen like an autumn leaf from my life though
but I am still living in your monstrous shadow.

-Spriha Kant

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-Spriha Kant

was born in Indore, India, and resides there with her family. She developed an interest in reading and writing poetries at a very tender age. Her poetry “The Seashell” was first published online in the “Imaginary Land Stories” on August 8, 2020, by Sunmeet Singh. She has been a part of Stuart Matthew’s
anthology “Sing, Do the birds of Spring” in the fourth series of books from Instant Eternal poetry prompts. She has been featured in the Bob Dylan-inspired anthology “Hard Rain Poetry: Forever Dylan” by the founder and editor of the website “Fevers of the Mind “David L O’ Nan”. Her poetries have been published
in the anthology “Bare Bones Writing Issue 1: Fevers of the Mind”