Lotus

Did you think
it was honey?
Laced with poison,
blood stained hue,
did you think it
shone like gold?


Viscous, damp
against its
orange scales,
were you a
fool to think
it was gold?


were you a fool to call it gold?
only a fool would call it gold.


Anirban Baishya (August 5, 2019)