As You Like It – Delhi Poetry Slam

As You Like It

By Smita Vyas Kumar

It can't be too hard
to forget or to cage.
Memories are like shards

of glass, tearing apart
curtains brittle with age.
It can't be too hard

to speed up or retard
the cleaning of old rage.
Memories are like shards

or daggers sharp
piercing through a page.
It can't be too hard

to erase or rewrite,
or for that matter, recreate.
Memories are like shards

of mosaics past—
a future to arrange or break.
It can't be too hard.
Memories are like shards.


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