Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 8, No. 2: CLRI May 2021

Ms. Reena Mahay

Love

Two brutes

accosted;

scorned;

savagely stoned;

bled and bruised;

hand-cuffed;

street arrested for —

Love.

Shoved in —

for a Bible oath

within the bounds of

a licit Church.

The Raven's gavel

banged...

shush...shush...shush!

'I love Man. I'm innocent.'

Blurted the other, brazenly unsolicited —

'And, this is Me,

simply a Sapien on a homo-loving spree!'

'In God’s faith,

bonded we stand to plead:

Mercy!!!

Let us, friends of Dorothy go

scot-free.'

Alas!!!

When will Man

break free —

to grow a heart

to love

and

let love,

unbridled???

Irony!!!

In societal relationships:

to love

and

be loved,

one needs to

fit in

— be tamed —

in black and white

molded rusty frames!

Ms. Reena Mahay is an Educationist, qualified Social Worker, ELT Consultant, Poet and a Freelance Writer. She holds triple Bachelors in Arts, Law and Education; a Masters in Social Work; American TESOL; and CELTA from the University of Cambridge; with a plethora of other academic certifications to her credit. Her versatile and sensitive persona is best drawn towards the socio-cultural concerns and ‘ills facing Man’ in the current era, which oft become her muse to chart out her perspective from the voice of her pen.

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