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Poetry – Mohona Chatterjee

Two Poems

India

I am the curtained…
Given promises and aphorisms…
I am the books of right…
The shroud… The pardah…
I am lost in Delhi… Found back in Bengal…
I am the acid-faceted, invented at the day’s gall…
I am the lie of civil society…
Posted on the conclaves of your city in bikini…
To be bought and sold…
To be burnt and found cold…
Corpsed hanging by trees in U.P. …
I am the molested word… I am the soul measured in dowry…
I am your rigged democracy…
Your mother… your friend… lost in silence’s frenzy…
I am the cheated… I am the stoned…
I am Malala… The nightmare when you snored…
I am the advertised…
Disguised with an assuming smile… I am the demised…
Washed up in the darkness of your ink… I am the fly…
I am custom… Convention… I die…
And rise up amid forgettable candle-marches to ask in hysteria…
Where is my INDIA…!
Perhaps
In the nightly coffee sip…
Your unspoken lip…
Lies within my drawer…
In the lonely shower…
Of all such delayed and debarred monsoons…
And the dismissed meetings and kisses of all such afternoons…
And by the stalls emptying to mourn…
I love of love for the loveless sojourn…
And in the cigarette ashes find the twins…
Of the towers and pyramids of illusions turned to ruins…
I hang about like the neglected dwarf…
Your echoing photograph…
And by the strife with the jar of jam…
I still bread me in your eyes, to read the script that I am…
And even then in the winter of this washed-out basin…
I mind to sink in…
Your fingers around and on my forehead…
And desire before I am dead…
Your touch…
And after such…
Thoughts that overwhelm…
I find shame…
Sticking to my gaze…
And in the rays…
Of the buffering tube light dazzle…
I rattle…
To love you…
Or my love renew…
Perhaps there I loved too many a miles…
Perhaps there I lost too many a smiles…
Perhaps there I drop a kiss across the flannel attire…
Perhaps there I shall stand, until I could myself pyre…
Perhaps therefore I shall deserve…
This love of silence… This route of reckless nerve…
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