Mamta Kalia
Mamta Kalia
Mamta Kalia
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Looting the broken window<br />
of a falling tower?<br />
Snatching bits of the tattered<br />
blanket of a widow?<br />
Grabbing, from the bundle<br />
of the old woman,<br />
twigs of dried flowers?<br />
You do not turn back<br />
and look that the lions in your own jungle<br />
have started roaring at you.<br />
Snakes from your own hole<br />
have started hissing at you.<br />
Will you kill the dreams?<br />
The expectations?<br />
To triumph over darkness<br />
will you kill the light?<br />
After all, to conquer<br />
over which death<br />
will you end this<br />
beautiful life?<br />
Renaissance<br />
Oh what a change in me in all these years!<br />
Moonlight peppers my hair,<br />
Harsh sun has created patches on the cheeks.<br />
And what to say of my moustaches.<br />
Have fought so many times and could not save them in the end.<br />
Even my voice has changed.<br />
The way a city changes in front of your very own eyes.<br />
When I call out to my wife and children,<br />
56 :: April-June 2010
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