Featured Poet - Gargi Saha

ALZHEIMER

In the ocean of amnesia 

I have forgotten to lock the main door 

And have arrived here in the strange island 

Where everything seems weird, gobbledygook 

From where am I? 

Who am I? 

Why in this country? 

Whom do I belong? 

Everything appears an unsolved puzzle 

And I appear to be an infinitesimal ant 

Crawling in the mammoth universe 

Of techniques and technologies 

Dogmas and doctrines 

Philosophies and fables 

I have forgotten to book my tickets 

For the next flight 

That is destined for Liberation 

From class, caste, religion 

I am patiently wandering 

In this abyss of ignorance 

Ignorance is bliss 

To forget is my habit 

I forget often 

Myself, my family, my friends, my society 

I linger around in this pool of quietude 

Mental manacles of non identity 

Crush, maim, dismember me 

I wish to belong, to be a part of everyone 

Be loved for, by all 

But I happen to have forgotten everything 

How I reminiscence those golden days 

Of admiration, adoration 

When I was the tip of the hat 

Ruling the roost 

With an air of dignified approbation 

Parties, celebration, gala 

The music gonging my ears 

Now in this loud silence 

Where I am, just existing 

Without an identity 

Who will love me? 

Care for me? 

I am just a non entity 

Look down dustbin disdainfully 

If only I could recollect 

Who am I? 

Why am I? 

Dwindling, in the shadows of yester years

~

COUNT OF THE BREATH

In a ginormous universe 

Starts the peregrination 

Discover the land

It's seas

With azure oceans

Green trees

With plump fruits

Wandered from every valley to the highest peak

Left nothing untrodden 

Trodden footprints left everywhere 

Each avenue explored

But did I ever look within

Discover the inner light? 

That burns invisibly bright

Which is the voice of every dumb

The rudder of the ship 

The rhythm of music 

The essence of living

I m just existing 

In the deserts of uncertainty 

Muddled waters entering 

Into an abyss of ignorance 

I wish to die unnoticed, uncared, unlamented. 

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DISMEMBERED SELVES

Strolled the world 

Gathered knowledge of cultures, civilisations, races, groups

Researched meticulously 

Yet an essence of emptiness, hollowness, futility dawns

As if nothing ever happened 

Awaiting to begin a new series

Of unplanned, undecided, unknown dreams

On a new horizon to be rising 

And man dwindling 

Between past and future 

Hope and Despair

Faith and disbelief 

Materialism and Spirituality 

Armed to the teeth

Still feel without, unprotected, unasked 

Futile endeavour of man

To attain 'Unity', 'Within' and 'Without '.

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DISSIMULATING REALITY

Misery, misery all around 

In, around, about, above, within, without 

Yet myriad men wear 

Deceptive, superficial smiles 

To dissimulate the ultimate truth 

Beyond many cheers 

There are umpteen, unseen, unwept, melancholies, miseries, tears.

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MENTAL ABUSE

My mind is like a white paper 

That blots the black and the white 

Semantics and non semantics 

Syllables, morphemes, words, phrases 

Which to be considered intended? 

Which unintentional, just a slip of tongue? 

Meanings overlap meanings

A layer within another engulfed 

No circumference, no contour 

Which ones to ignore, which to imprint?

Which ones to recall, which to forget

Speechless trauma sailing in an abyss of 

Infinity

Silence spreads it's shadowing sheath

And awaits the hour of justice 

Is it justified? 

To scratch someone by the invisible, deepest, darkest scars in the psyche?

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A CONSCIOUS MIND

What stark realities are all around 

How can I breathe normally? 

Bastards namelessly dawdling 

Legal rights denied to the legitimate sons

Rape of niece by uncle 

Gargantuan, glaring, unemployment, starvation, penury

Unjustified scepticism, mistrusts, phobias 

Deep penetrating antipathy, antagonism, terrorism 

Blood - Blood - Blood -

Irrecoverable, malignant, mental pains

Falsity, duplicity, complexity

Despair ,disillusionment, despondence 

Sinking hearts in an arid, woeful wasteland 

Small distance, wide gulfs in the minds

Escalating complexes, callousness, domination

Only repining restlessness pervades far and near 

Who foe, who friend, who dear?

Insomnia and a long sleep forever.



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