Cannot Remember

poem by: Durlabh Singh
Written on Jun 16, 2016

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.

 

Tags: sad, pain, dark,

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Christopher Russon commented:
I love your poems Very deep always well wtitten

 

 

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