Ecdysis

Jeemoni Lahkar

I want to shed this skin

Can't keep doing this, can't live in this.

Have to.

They flutter behind my eyelids

All those moments

Like pin pricks of light

Like dust in sunlight.

My image on the mirror

More like a transient reflection.

There is a sadness so deep

That it has pierced the bones.

It flows in your blood.

Like a static hum

It feeds off your thoughts.

You see the faces,

Not the parasites they carry.