CANNOT REMEMBER. I cannot remember my name As there is no remembrance On my finger tips No remembrance in my bones No remembrance in skelton And my skull speaks Of anguished living fears Compounded by arduous Callousness of the fate. I have no name Perhaps I was a companion Of the wandering shadows Living in docile lands Outside the gates of paradise. Squeezed in hand To find tooth of lemon And drink waters Drained of the rivers saline To quench thirsts born of fevers. To compensate for breaths Starved of the living I will pay dividends By the levies on winds And when the voices From alien lands arrive I will not agree to stand thither Because I cannot recall my name On tapes of some measured message. Tonight I may Under the star studded heavens In high reverberations of mind Find some new grounds Of some whispered tonalities To recall past remembered sound. To recall my name. Durlabh Singh.