Nowadays, an unanswered door,
longer than a minute,
teleports to
a hospital bed

Her head is twisted
to right,
and you hold
her cold, numb feet, in tears

imagining yourself kissing
her forehead,
while she fixates
on your newborn, in tears

SRIRAMGOKUL CHINNASAMY lives in India and has Creative Writing MA from Teesside University. He is the author of ‘A Teesside Girl and other poems’.