Darkening, we walk -
Over unforgiving rocks -
Across the alpine.
You trudge on ahead,
While I stumble behind
Unafraid; as I,
Every once in a while,
See a firefly
Turn and shed its light
To check on me,
And I, in happy fatigue,
Nod.
... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 139 Views added 10 months ago
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Next time
You cry yourself
To a shaky status quo -
In the car,
After everyone is gone
With their spouses
And their offspring in tow,
Their precious fates -
Things your lonely soul
Sometimes desiderates -
Don't stop the flow.
It's Beauty... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 87 Views added 10 months ago
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Time it was when we banished were
From the riches, the comfort and the ranks,
When all I had was the grit in my bones
And your brave heart, that made us one.
Love it was when I possessed your mind,
And you filled mine; not a soul knew
How... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 514 Views added 10 months ago
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Remember you were young once,
Remember I loved you once.
And in that love
Lives a fossil of your Beauty.
Keep it as a token
Or throw it away,
But I know on a certain kind of night
You'll rummage through your trash,
In search of a memento
... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 86 Views added 10 months ago
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You once loved wild
You once loved free
And after the fire burnt you to cinder,
Steadily, you grew weary.
You never knew
Where the crazy flew,
Nor when it had already found itself
A mad new avenue.
Well, you found love again,
But... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 66 Views added 10 months ago
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There is no 'us',
Save what roams, phantom-like,
Between the lines of this verse.
An 'us' to us never did belong,
Save when you and I, childlike,
Swam across the bars of a song.
And 'us' there shall never be,
As long as we, ever-weary, ... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 62 Views added 10 months ago
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Somewhere in a city
Half a goddess unattended sits,
An early coat of crimson drying
Carelessly on Her clay-skin,
While on a wall, unintended,
Shines a sickle of crimson same:
A relic from a time of revolution,
Of ideals, of passions now... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 119 Views added 1 year ago
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Humanity walks a razor's edge
I saw it in events replayed in my head
Images my mind struggles to forget.
An angry scorn in quick formation
Surrounded me with practiced precision
Tested the limits of my endurance
Built over three decades of... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 58 Views added 1 year ago
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Whites in white go, blacks in black too.
Patterns form in an explosion of similitude;
an utter lack of conflict; the end of discordance.
The rebel rests and the nomad finds home.
There are waves of sound inside a vacuum;
... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 67 Views added 1 year ago
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Today, it's bad.
A really bad day,
Today.
Watching you go
Just makes me sad;
If you want me to beg,
Well I won't do that.
A tree I planted
Years back
One day,
Shed it's leaves
Today.
Branches writhing in barren cringe -
... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 65 Views added 1 year ago
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The world is no place for you, my love.
Simple you never did get it, my love.
Never, the misery
Never the plight,
The abandonment
And the unfair might
Of brute force on simple you, unprepared.
Your god never gave you an armour
And your... – by Anubrato Ghatak | 337 Views added 1 year ago
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