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clothes hit the floor and his hands her body, eroding everything in the way, like the first sound

 

 

Relation

                          By Anupama Bhargava

 

Her stepfather knocks her flesh and pokes his bony fingers inside her olive porcelain cheeks and says, " I want to show how much I love you!" and under the sheet the current rushes.

Sounds of whooping silence coarse through her, when

The charmed features are etched in his palms, once again and her color marches away in mourning in the grill-greased night.

Relation seems to have elapsed his azure eyes, as

His hand strain till the coverings, so vexatious to him, jars the earth.

The clothes hit the floor and his hands her body, eroding everything in the way, like the first sound from the treacherous echo!

Her eyes can only excite detestation and sympathy for herself,

When not running the whole gamut of tears spurning other foreign aches,

As he passes his manhood into utter monstrosity inside her.

At the age of ten, she is entrusted with an adult secret, and also

This is how she is made to realize the magnitude of her errors committed throughout the day, at night by his stiff breech, when her every nerve lies exposed under his skin!

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posted 17 June 2003

 

 

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