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Lonely Furrow
I’m ploughing a lonely furrow,
ploughing it for years
Nobody comes to this far-off,
deserted place, not even those
who once belonged here.
Do they think I’m an outlier,
clinging to unyielding soil,
guided by antiquated notions?
Am I marching to the beats
of an antique drum?
I’m ploughing a lonely furrow,
ploughing it for years.
Nobody will come this way,
nobody but you. Who else
will traverse all this distance?
Once I saw someone coming;
then he turned back. A traveller,
perhaps, who had lost his way.
Once I heard your voice. I left
the plough, rushed to meet you.
But it was a hallucination.
Still I wait and listen, ready
to meet you more than half-way,
leaving the plough mid furrow.
Tarred
Some are tarred
with the same sable brush,
some others with synthetic brushes
of different shapes and sizes.
What difference does it make?
It’s tar, black and viscous, all over.
You have no choice.
First Winter
Alone in the apartment,
he pulls up the venetian blind
and peers through the window.
It’s past three-thirty but already
dark. The snow has piled up,
about a foot high; the air is thick
with snowflakes flitting and falling.
The bare branches of the trees
are white ghosts shaking their fists.
White. white everywhere, against
the encroaching dark. The forecast
gloomy: more snowfall and
high-velocity winds. When will
they return, the inmates? The flights
are delayed or cancelled. Spring is
months away. What a contrast!
There, in his village, several seas
and continents away, it is the time
of mists and temple festivals.
And once again, he is a boy,
devouring those sights and sounds.
But no, he shouldn’t get tied
to the apron strings of the past.
Here, in this land of opportunities,
he should work his way up.
But, at this moment, alone
in the apartment, snow falling
all around and wind whooshing,
he feels lonely like an exile
and yearns for home.
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