MAY RED NEVER REMIND ME OF THESE

*_MAY RED NEVER REMIND ME OF THESE_*


"What red reminds you of? "

"If they only let me speak, 
Perhaps, 
It'd be the women in carmine Kashmiri shalls, 
The lips, eyes that blink in innocence 
The crimson flow from a starving 'dalit body', 
Vermilion splatters from the 'top-notch khaki '
In their cells, libraries and at university gates, 
And my land, 
 ~My~ land of no LOVE, but warm restless blood."

- Erfana A K
  2nd BA F. E

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