Easter

do not !

please keep  no roses here!

you buried my hopes

even before i was dead;

hence,  no roses

my un dear ones,

no roses please!

not even other flowers 

with tears of dew!

let me be free -let me be myself

at least under this slab-

for me 'freedom meant a peaceful death!'

doesn't my life in death seem better

than your death in life?
huh,let me laugh at least now,

and no flowers

for your invisible heaven's sake!


my dead soul can never grow thorns
to bear your beautiful roses

and also knows pretty well that 

this world does not need my 

R E S U R R E C T I O N!

- Vijaya Babu,Koganti (1998) koviba@gmail.com