I never wandered enough through you, mostly keeping away from dryly lit lanes even under the hot summer sun,\u00a0 except<\/p>\n
A couple of times when i wanted to ruin my name in your honour, in your lanes<\/p>\n
I cajoled myself to collect faded paper tickets and plastic metro coins<\/p>\n
As you hustled and bustled all over me, my existence shredded in the high rise offices that have their own smells<\/p>\n
That nauseate. Not so much like the stench of urine on walls decorated by children for the world something day, belching<\/p>\n
Uncouth paramours who wish to make you a Draupadi* in the bazar hoot and you remember<\/p>\n
Ted Hughes taught by a broken voice on a rainy day in the glistening ancient heritage university where<\/p>\n
You saw me gobble my lunch tersely while i waited for my first date with whom<\/p>\n
I wandered the river that pass by you, never ever belonging to you creating an obnoxious<\/p>\n
Reality that is twined with dreams, middle-class dreams, middle paths and middle everythings<\/p>\n
Like your lungs that now douse the day’s acerbic dust with beloved poetry<\/p>\n
For that is your soul.<\/p>\n
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