If Not Now

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Do you hanker
While it spreads
Like a canker
Within your soul


Sending ripples
Of unease
That ricochet
Never to cease


Incubating
Absorbing
The starving embryo
Grows


In need
In want
A time to gestate
A time to be reborn


The hungry ghost
Cannot be appeased
With stories
Of conformity


If not now, when
If not you, then who
It's not later
It's not them


---Shaku Selvakumar© 2010