THE nation has let out an emotional reaction over the 26/11 terror attacks, but the grieving continues. Oscar-nominated director Shekhar Kapur's poignant poem about a victim's inexplicable relationship with a bullet finds its way among the tributes offered in the new issue of Verve.

Sunday MiD DAY excerpts the beginning of his moving poem, titled simply, Goodbye, My Love.u00a0u00a0

as she left her womb,
thrust out by a violent birth
i knew that she and I
were destined for the most
intimate of all relationships