Poetry

Salmonella wanted 
to broker a truce─ 
between life and death. 
We were very scared. 
The questions were never answered. 
 
A fault on the earth’s face. 
Who will ask the─ 
hangman? The tree was 
standing without roots. 
The questions were never answered. 
 
Who was the spider 
and who was the fly? 
A rose was unfazed; 
it was a naked thorn. 
The questions were never answered.