Riverbank Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Bit by bit the monster river
swallows her flesh
her chunks a little quiver
then break in lumpy mess!

She loves him in high tide moon
bears him children in insane fertility
falls for his sweet lapping croon
loses her in his enormity.

Since he mouthed her his first kiss
she had given him her ego
shrunk with his each bitten piece
washed away with his flow.

In love she never wavers
to offer her to the river
yielding to the monstrous slayer
knowing him her destined lover!