THE READING OF CRUSHED DREAMS

“I aim my unfinished letters

To a basket on the floor

I’m a worse marksman than lover

Because the floor is now a landmine

Of unfinished promises, yours and mine

“I try to get on my knees

To pick up the crushed dreams

But I don’t remember the sequence

As I open and read each

Knowing that with a mistake

Like a wrong rigged wire

My heart will explode”

– Rakesh Shukla ‘Manu’