Devoured by silence
I am parched from shouting
My body crumbled
from the sear of the whirling sirocco
All my boundaries blistered
And there, in the dry empty spaces
I hardly exist at all

Daymare without an end
The time of mind dirge bemoaning
Sun serrated and heat abated
delirium’s black & bleach colliding
it spread into wasted spaces
Floods my dominion with illusions
And I ricochet amid them

Labyrinth of ambivalence
They conceive me diaphanous
enduring my choices but always wondering
should I have chosen the contrary?
Tears burned, I am unconcerned
It’s time to crawl back into myself
Under the sun of my sanctuary

words © Malai Carrara 2011
Photography Copyright © Nausher Banaji
all rights retained by photographer. www.nausher.net