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The Evil In Me

October 6, 2015 | By Nalini Srivastava

A dark poem unfolding some mysterious nuances of the mind that aches when it hurts someone close.

I venerate the dark and silent lanes

Asking myself , why I hurt him again?

Yet the inner me gloats in his pain.

I nurture and feed the demons inside,

But I hurt seeing the rift in relations
growing far and wide.

I nourish myself on their tears,

I grow stronger nourishing on the fears.

I venerate the dark and silent lanes,

They bleed to death and I stay sane.

The evil in me multiplies by leaps and bound,

I can listen to all the muted shrieking sounds.

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Nalini Srivastava ( 3 Posts)

Nalini is a poet at heart and writer by choice. A teacher by profession, she is a mother of a 9 year old son. With one collection of dark genre short stories to her credit, she dreams of her poems getting published soon. A passionate Lucknowite and an ardent Indian, she loves to dream and to work hard to make them come true.
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