Jan 6, 2018 Original Poetry
Pre-Set
©January 6th, 2018
By Vijaya Sundaram
Blue skies meet green trees in artificial heat,
And the sunlight borrowers make it day
Where night presses against windowpanes:
A dark-eyed orphan child viewing sweets, and
Forbidden entry by those
Who, spurning reality, make
Its twin indoors.
The curtain rises.
The world sits in suspended animation.
I wonder whether my child is playing music
With my husband, or listening to music,
Or reading, or sewing at home.
I wonder these things for a couple of seconds,
Then, walk into this pre-set world.
Reality recedes into a corner,
And watches its twin.
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