Kaberi Chattopadhyay

Until i became the I

I tried to wriggle out of all my pains 
my soul rendered an abode of storm 
all the joyful sensual pleasures
pressed and bruised under its pernicious weight 
should I be a spectator and watch the intermittent game 
with the theatrical fondness of a frivolous lover
or 
Uproot all of it 
with the ferocity and deliberateness of an unfed lioness ...

I tried them all _I tried them all 
until my heart closed all its four chambers 
with the obduracy of a chain smoker!

<strong>Kaberi Chattopadhyay</strong>
Kaberi Chattopadhyay

Kaberi Chattopadhyay worked as an assistant teacher of English at Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission and Army Public School, Barrackpore. In 2021 her Autobiography Peeping Through My Window focussing on her fierce battle with the life threatening malady breast cancer was published by Virasat Art Publication and her debut collection of poems, The Twilight Bells was published by Penprints publication in 2022.