Vijaya Sundaram

Poet, Musician, Teacher, and Amateur Visual Artist

Shell-Life
Shell-Life
©September 7th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram

Some days, one becomes a shell.
The creature that used to be within, is elsewhere.
This is oddly interesting.
One picks it at. There’s some pain.
The scab is fascinating –
All scabby and rough, but slick with memory,
Like snail-trails leading somewhere,
But no one knows quite where, or why.
On some days, one could face
Nothingness with ease.
Would the shell then get back to being elemental?
Make a garden grow?
Adorn a god’s desk?
Becoming elemental again –
How soothing that would be!
Death needs no drama, no fuss.
It just flows along, doing its job.
So does life, busy doing hers.
So, I’ll get on with it –
For I’ve some swimming to do,
Before I find my shell again.
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