Some plants grow and turn green
without props, splash, or sunshine.
I was on an emotional diet
much before I understood
its implications.
Yet I crawled out
of it to take on
the duties thrust upon me.
Departure and its score
are the universe’s final
evaluation of the earthly tenure.

Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry books. His poems have
been published in forty countries and appear in more than 600 journals and anthologies. He is the
joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK, among others. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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