Monday, 26 December 2016

A Losing Battle - Kamala Das

A Losing Battle
- Kamala Das

How can my love hold him when the other
Flaunts a gaudy lust and is lioness
To his beast?  Men are worthless, to trap them
Use the cheapest bait of all, but never
Love, which in a woman must mean tears
And a silence in the blood.

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