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Ego Qua Non Persona,
I am the mask that never said he'd lie or
tell u the truth; the mask never said he'd
lie to u b/c what u believe is what you're
denying in urself; the ghost speaking on
its own w/ a voice from the crystal ball
as hopelessly Pandora sits w/ her red box
abandoned at the bottom of the blue lake;
she only surfaces to kiss me w/ her cold
clammy lips; her steel guitar solo ringing 
throughout god's heaven to the loud brisk
applauding of the assembled 144,000 gold
ticket holding Holy Host
At this hour of clouds
Thunder sounds loud
Dreams just float
Like butterflies of ghost
Trance start up
With unknown thoughts up
My work multiplies
I dry my clothes
And rain drops make them wet
I arrange them with a net
Dry them in hangers
Like skeletons of strangers
I.
My mother places a dot of
Vermillion
On my forehead the same hands
That have helped
Bury a million
Unborn babies in the lush green
Fields that the brochures display

II.
The young bride enters her groom's house
Her alta colored feet leave red
Bloodstains in her wake
A young girl trails behind
places her little feet
in the same prints and
Waits

III.
The gotar mali has her arms tied above
Her head and her legs splayed blood
Drops from her body and the officials
Frame it in a green background and
call it a flag, call it a country, call it a
Dying woman's honor

IV.
My mother places a dot of
Vermillion
on my forehead
And I wonder if it's way of
branding
Women with an honor
they did not ask for
And cannot control
Inspired by the brave women warriors of Bengal.
Many  a times,
A door of imagination
Pretendingly kept open
To allure
To steal the emotional waves
captured...
Mocked and gained...
Wholesale
..
Unware
Be aware
...
Somebody is watching you...


.
.
.
When the yellow day coppers to dusk
I paint my weary eyes dreams.

They nudely wade the crabhole muds
for marks of the great marksman
climb up the chunks going into tides
tiptoe through the needle roots
sniff a wind that smells of stripes
thrilled
death if comes
would be a momentary stir
a dangling cloth
resting on the trail of blood, marking,
someone ventured.
Tiger trail, Sunderban, February 24-25, 2018
Tu ab mat kar intezaar mila
Mein khud se dur chala gaya hu
Mumkin namumkin
Pankh mein khoya khoya chand
Bhul ja
Bhul ja
..
.

Dooriyaan ye
Manzil e khamoshiyan
Luka chhupi
Tham si gayi..
..


..

...
Phir ek awaaz aayi...
Mein khud ko rok na paya
...
Hasti ek takleefein..
Awaargi...
All sorrows don’t have the same weight.
And sometime its weight
is not related to the reason of the sorrow,
but on the person who endures it.
And there is always something worse
that could happen in everyone’s life.
Our sufferings may not be equal.
Our tears may not be of same hue.
But
a heart that hurts
must feel the same.
A mind that’s lost,
the whispers of blame
must feel the same.



When you don’t belong to earth
and the sky doesn’t want you
and you know not where to go.
Come to me.
I will hear you.
I will hear all you worries
that seem too childish to be spoken out.
I will hear the sound
of your deep breaths in the music of your sobs.
I will let you live your grief.
Grief to have lost.
Grief to have found .
Grief to simply exist.
Whatever it may be
and you don’t have to explain why it hurts.
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