Sleep Deprived and In a Poetic Mood

I'm trying not to fall asleep in class...poetry helps me do that. Poetry keeps me sane.


Glow I Shan’t
By: Gowri Nadmichettu
3/10-11/2009

I glow
Do you say?
I think not.

…unless egregiously

My! Inadvertently.

I shan’t glow

For this is sin
That stabs and slices and spears me
In in in
In


side the vein that conjoins the beating (perhaps beaten) chambers
That should separate what need be.

Glow I must not
And glow I will not

So egregiously.

So that the black of dark does not illuminate
and suffuse
and besmirch
the surface of all that is clean,

sometimes obscurity
Should be.

And

Sometimes light
Is much too Pretty…

At least,
for me.