LIVING IS A LONG GAME

I can't change body
can't belittle nature
prophets of doom

can't cross rainbow bridge
nor go to underworld
to reach heaven:

water and mountains
I can't neogitate
with my burdens

burial no end
living is a long game
that goes beyond death

--R.K.SINGH

INDIAN

He reads haiku
over Indian whisky
in Scotland

--R.K.SINGH

SILVER SHOWER

This morning
a shimmering rainbow
silver shower


--R.K.SINGH

DEATH

We do not know
who cares for us
live or dead

nor do we know
our end
now or ever

which meeting with whom
is the last
we do not know

when darkness gushes
in from the breach
sky sinks down

as stranger we come
as stranger
we pass

like withered grass
uncelebrated
unmourned, unknown


--R.K.SINGH