Ghoul: A poem





It is time to

Choose a name, a role.

Don't play pretending games.

Am I Pretending

the slaughtered one cannot have a role

the one inside me knows only 'Ghoul'

bewitching to become one said,

"We will have a name from the dead"

the one who was eliminated

I, who cannot have any name.

But the ghoul inside me

shouting and naming

to become one.

-Nilay Rathod

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