Doll's House
There are no angles, no beams, no columns
in/to this doll's house.
It is designed to a plan of 'merry-go-round'.
There are no guns, no knives, nor pointed words,
a small eraser is the lone weapon
to smoothen rough lines in a drawing-book.
There are no safe-vaults, nor lock and keys,
in absence of doors and windows
the house ever appears complete to be.
Some people label it as ivory tower,
oblivious to the stark reality:
here rests, not an arm-chair scholar, but a little girl.
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c s shah
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