Response Poem 2: Bhargavi

Response poem to Memory (form Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

(A continuation of the poem)

The night gleaming, are the mirages true?

Lying still your emotion- true to

It’s truest sense. The horizon colored,

Tainted pink, brown and red.

Remind! Remind! Remain!

Say the sands as they come near

Cold and dusty as the memory of 

You and your tasteful hand.

Soft at its edges and blind at their tips

Like the mirage in the distance, snarling

"Seek what you seek, seeks!"

Calling-Ne’er to be heard.

Space turning inward, calling

Me in my misery and source

Of that dull embrace, reminding me

Of that one, one day