Grief
By Abha Iyengar

Thinking
I have put it all behind me
I walk,
But my thoughts break my stride.

I want to stop,
Lean against a tree
Hold on to its roughness
For comfort
And watch the leaves fall
With my grief.

I walk on
The leaves fall quietly behind me.

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Abha is one of our most recent KotaPress Anthology Contest winners!!! This is just one of the pieces she'll have in our Anthology Volume 3 ebook when it is released in December 2002. You'll want to check back then to download your free copy of that Anthology ebook!