Snake

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You left me behind like

A snake that sheds its skin

To move ahead callously

Crawling to a new hole

A new terrain, a new prey

While I lay kaput like a diadem

Crushed under enemy’s wagon

Like a sad note, half discernible

Coming from a broken violin

Like that mild reek that springs

From stale forgotten bouquets

I was your skin once, intimate and attached

Now, I am mere an object of odd curiosity

Of strangers with greed gleaming in ice cold eyes,

All bitter gazes and silent taunts that rip as a knife

I know, I know Love, that I will be loved by none

But I also know, I understand that you are a snake

Indeed one…