Monday, 25 December 2023

The fire

 


The torch of the sun

Creates a centre stage

Even in the margins

Where we find ourselves

It sparks the sight at dawn

Whereas in our blindness

We grope and stagger enroute

Towards the criss-cross of time

Here the noon makes no difference.

When the hour comes finally

To unpack the gifts of the day

We hold on to the wrapped past

That we have failed to disburden

Even as we trudge with the load

Amidst the cue of barren breeze

That spreads like a song from twigs

Now the hour of the torch

The burnt epitaph on pyre

Charred remains of us like anyone else

The night of the time we had .

 

Delhi

02.40 hrs

26.12.23

2109

 

 

 

 

 

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