To Young Daughters
Sandeep Kumar Mishra

How you carry scars of grown-ups,
and consider them as cadaver of exigency,
with the torture of that tender fidelity in
persistent struggles, but keen for apotheosis.

For you relations are an actual manifestation
under grandiloquent bedspreads,
sad mystifications, under the dearth of
overriding identities, with many hidden negations,

Form for you is linked to desire, and not to a 'hokum'
Now you ’re growing, jotting is overhead,
An unborn tense soul recovers
a radical innocence that is narcissistic