My Four Poems
These may interest some readers.
1. THE
SILVER JUBILEE
For
twenty–five years
We
have lived here
In
this house
We
call ours
Slept
in the same bed
Looked
into each others’ eyes
Embraced
and begotten
These
children
We
call ours
Together
We
have spent
This
life
And
yet
We
have been two cocoons
In
tangential contact
Our
unmetamorphosed selves
Shrivelling
year by year
In
our dark individual cells
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2.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS
We
have tried
Both
of us
We
have broken our heads
Against
stone walls
Withstood
the heat of blast furnaces
Waded
through parsecs of frozen silence…
To
edge towards each other
And
now
Two
frayed animals at our wits’ end
We
stare into each other’s eyeballs
Reflecting
two archaeological sites:
Ruined
cities with their broken artifacts
Time
beaten images of clay
Seals
and tablets inscribed
With
undecipherable messages:
Remains
of a defeated endeavour
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3. WE TWO
In this wilderness
We two
Could’ve walked
Hand in hand
On the same pathway
But chasing mirages
We’ve strayed away
From each other
Our oases
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4.
PARTING
That
day
During
our casual talk
Over
a cup of tea
One
thing my dear
Was
clear:
Henceforth
we won’t be
Atoms
united in covalent bonds
Perhaps
we would be
Two
particles of dust
In
random motion
Floating
in a shaft of sunlight
Or
two elements in two non-intersecting
Universes
of discourse
Never
meeting
Never
coming in each other’s way
Hurtling
through space
Like
galaxies from the shattered centre
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