BURY ME IN SAND

by Shikhandin

 
Bury me in sand
Forget about me.
Let salt wash away the flesh.
Let all the soft parts disintegrate
So nothing remains,
Save bare, bleached bones.

Don't bother to remember me at all.
A dinosaur skeleton
Would have told a better story.
 
So, do I regret this life?
No not really.
It never was extraordinary enough.
It merely ebbed and flowed,
Waxed and waned,
Much like the tides on a shore.
Nothing less nothing more.


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"Bury Me in Sand" was first published in Chanterelle’s Notebook, USA, and is part of Shikhandin’s poetry collection After Grief published by Red River, India, August 2021.

Shikhandin is the pen name of an Indian writer who writes for adults and children. Her published books include After Grief – Poems (Red River India), Impetuous Women (Penguin-Random House India), Immoderate Men (Speaking Tiger), and Vibhuti Cat (Duckbill-Penguin-Random House India). She has won various awards and honours, and her prose and poetry have been published worldwide. 
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