Kali Yuga

June 20, 2018 04:24 pm | Updated August 27, 2018 04:32 pm IST

The Great Day of His Wrath (John Martin, oil on canvas, 1851-’53) depicts the “destruction of the material world by natural cataclysm”. | Wikipedia

The Great Day of His Wrath (John Martin, oil on canvas, 1851-’53) depicts the “destruction of the material world by natural cataclysm”. | Wikipedia

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We fight over death

like starving mongrels,

gnawing it to the bone;

gorged on rancid memories

we vomit our hate.

We are blind pallbearers

carrying the truth in a shroud

wiping our bloodstained hands

on each other’s wounds

while we whisper:

‘This is Kali Yuga

this is the last age

this is our last chance

before our shredded hearts fall

between the bars of our cage.’

We mourn everyone else, but

we stumble over our own corpses

littered on the cold stone floor;

we think we hear breath flooding in

when our souls have flown out the door.

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