Back here
Without any one
Still there
But no
Where is the light
All the people there
Are trying to get me
Execute me
Convict me
For the crime I didn’t do
So what I do now
Run
Hide
Or kill to survive
Whatever I do
People will still be there
To get me
To satisfy themselves
Of their lust for power
Their lust of bashing up
An innocent man
For no reason whatsoever
But look
Aren’t we diverting?
We were talking about me
The egoist
Who only writes about
Himself
Whose writing suggests
He is the center
Of the world
Yes I was talking about myself
Of being
Executed
Of no crime whatsoever
But it is not so
What I did
Was wrong
Just because I did it
If anyone else had done it
It would be simple
Any other thing
But for me
Every rule changes
Why I never know
That’s why I face
The execution
Without any
Explanation
© Tarun Mitra
PS: This piece was written on April 9, 2008 at British Council Library New Delhi.
10 comments:
No....it ended unexplained...
framed...GOD..there might be so many such cases, just take the Sarabhjeet case..sad :(
nice one...
Reading this in a hurry what inspired it?
@ Megha, Mridula Suezelle
I wish to answer together..First of all thanks for commenting :).. Megha it is unexplained as I left it like this when I wrote...Mridula..u read it in a hurry and I wrote it in a hurry...
I wrote it in April 2008, penning it down in my diary before digitizing in 2009. I was alone then, and was feeling lonely..this was giving rise to hallucinations..so I tried to put down a conversation which vaporised into a poem..and the hallucination vanished....so there were no particular inspirations here just ummm....desperation..can say that...sometimes words just flow
Nice work Tarun. You are right. Sometimes words just flow.
Thanks Anu :)
nice thot tarun
Thanks Shivani
I don't understand poetry though its not fashionable to say so. Hope I get the hang of it soon.
@ Sanand..Thanks for visiting.. if you don't like it you just don't like it, there is nothing fashionable about it...even I many times don't like anything..keep visiting..:)
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