Coercion won’t force
Them down
Deception can’t
Stifle them
Emptiness fails to
Harden their lush dreams
Into frigid flakes of indifference
I try to keep them
Imprisoned
For your sake
But they spill
Out of my palm
Defying destiny
The women in me
They want all
Your silence
Does not snub them
pratibhapanghal 