Lost& Found: A Random Thought

It started as a day of mediocrity when everything happens in a routine, without even a ripple created anywhere to make you feel there's anything special about life. But suddenly, just like that, I looked into (and I have no clue why) my google documents. There, stashed in a pile of files, I found this few verses that I wrote a few months ago, probably in a trip to Gujarat. I don't know if its a poetry - I don't even know what a poetry is anyway - but in a very inexplicable way, these lost forgotten lines made me feel as though the evening had been there especially for em and that ahead of me lay a night of possibility.


Random Thoughts

I see the sun going down

behind the dome of

the brown

Gol Gambuj. Rows of trucks

stand parked against the naked walls

of an unknown structure from a bygone

era.

The sun’s coppery ray

fall on the ‘charpoy’,

where sits the old lady

splitting pea pods. Next to her

Stands Kaali, her buffalo,

Her black body

Looking like a magical shed

in

the

sun

.

Behind me, in a a house I hear 

the sound of radio

‘Welcome to akashvani’ it sings.

The music

slowly

spreads

in the

early evening air. A group of parrots

sit on the cable wire,

Now peeping, now pecking.

A few leaves of neem

falls on the courtyard – yellow, spent of life.

Yes, the set is ready for a drama

called night

It had been a long day

Things happened like

they are wanted: Fast, and frenzied

and got written

about, talked, clicked . Smitten

lover abducting girl

hurting, raping. Toddler

playing with red ball, run over

by a red van. Man arrested,

students tortured.

Shah Rukh mobbed

at film release, Fiza sobbed

recalling her Chand.

Yes, the day brought in a lot

making itself quite happening and hot

enough to keep people talking

and thinking

till they go to bed….

Yet now, its just another sunset

in this city.

And here I am,

sitting alone, drained

of words, thoughts and sights

Darkness descends, from the great heights

of the sky, spreading

numbness

Inside my heart

I

feel

nothing but nothingness.

Yes, absurd it is, but true

I’m so numb, because I miss you