Keki Daruwalla - Bars

If you want
a cage, my dear
you do not have
to travel far.
If you want to feel
hemmed in, you'll be hemmed in.
Look for scars
you'll be full of scars.
Even light can turn
into a cage.
The cage of light
has seven bars.

[From: The Map-maker]

Keki Daruwalla

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