Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 10, No. 3: CLRI August 2023

Ankit Mangal Singh

The air became smoke

In these untested and never seen walls,

the porch with pillars are gone.

Hazy sunsets have overtaken the dusks

where once the bleeding sun healed the souls.

These clouds trailed me from my hamlet,

they still rain, they still revolt.

The waves, once were closer to the skin,

now lingers unseen with the sands.

Some wrecked apertures fling some light,

the efforts couldn’t clutch it at all

It slips like sand slips from the fingers,

leaving the body to turn into a carcass.

And so, the remembrance of those grins

so much void and charmless with the lathering time

now occur at the pace of a heartbeat

to remind of the air that turned into smoke.

About the author: Ankit Mangal Singh is the founder of The Saffronberry & Co. and an English poet from New Delhi. He has been writing and exploring the intersection of self-mastery, philosophy, and entrepreneurship, through startups, books, and self-hosted podcasts.
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