Debdoot Mukherjee's Poem

 Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 4, Number 1. May 2021. ISSN: 2581-7094

To live for Death

--- Debdoot Mukherjee

 

Death is all I live for.

Only the acceptance is tough.

It does limit me, it’s its duty,

It does limit my breath

My body, my beats–

All the same, it forces me;

Forces me to be limitless.

Death is all I love for,

For it enlivens my poems.