I am waiting
for the next discontinuity
in your smile
a break in thought
a vacant moment
when eyes forget
the smile
I am not afraid
not any longer
a glass scribed
with a maze of lines
waiting
to break at the slightest pressure
of an accidental hand
- January 22,1974
umashankar manthravadi
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