My Friday Falls Asleep





Supriya Jha





My Friday falls asleep,

On the ocean floor!

I lie dead awake, And think,

No one cries anymore.


My Friday hops and leaps,

High on dolphin dreams.

I sway like a tree,

Staring at fallen leaves, in the nearby streams.


My kohl-rimmed vision

Pricks my eyes,

Smudged with inky blue waves

Apathy leaks out, empathy cries.


My Friday glides like a flowing river

Sparkling with fiesty moonbeams.

As I break off like a chunk of glacier

Triggering avalanches, humming requiems.