Tag Archives: Remember

Energyless

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I wonder if I will travel

if I will find alkaline food

because only that agrees

with me

if my memory will work

for me to remember

to take everything

or will I forget

and lose things

and get stranded

somewhere

and will my vacation

turn into a nightmare

when I have such thoughts

the countries I want to visit

turn into shadows

and I am unhappy

and I tell myself

you better do it Dominic

better fulfill your dreams

you don’t want to die sad

and I know that is right

and I must put behind it

all my might

and soon those places

once again appear

lifelike in my mind

and I swear to visit them

as I realise it’s high time

that to myself I must be kind.

Peace is a White Dove

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fluttering in your heart

it is serenity in your eyes

and the sky

it is the green pasture

that enters your mind

just before the mountains

and trees

and people are happy

the children playing cricket

running in delight

last evening they

opened my gate

in wild excitement

sprinting in glee

and I was taken back

40-45 years under

the night sky glowing

with the moon and stars

I run home with my friends

I remember the buildings

but I know they don’t

remember us

these kids will also

grow up one day

and realise these places

have forgotten them

to myself I say

and everything becomes

fonder to me then

the Earth rises into my arms

and pats me like a mother.

My Heart has been Aching for Days

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from time to time

and I don’t know why

I want it to go away

and in my mind

are journeys from

the past

they go by like flashes

of light

the bright sun

in the countryside

and the train’s blue light

at night

these are my most precious

possessions

the things I promised

to remember

the roads the mountains

the buildings the bridges

the rivers the farms

the buffaloes

the women working

in the fields laughing

in Bombay people

are like insects

all its vehicles

and trains

are nothing but

ants or worms

but very pretty

and there we are

the moon’s children

at her breast

we suckle

and here in Kumily

we belong

to the forest

in her womb

we sleep.

Yesterday Three Boys Entered my Property

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and tried to steal

my sapodillas

I got out

of my house

screaming

and they ran away

they were so amused

they were sitting

down the road

and laughing

and when I

looked at them

they got up

and ran again

and disappeared

into another road

and once

some boys

had tried

to steal my coconuts

they had jumped

into my property

from the one

alongside mine

but upon seeing me

looking at them

they ran away too

and I remember

myself as a boy

the mischief

I was up to

with my friends

though we never

stole anything

lighting firecrackers

in the exhausts

of lovers’ cars

parked on our

street

shooting streetlights

with air rifles

and the thrill

of pressing

someone’s doorbell

and running away

gives me the chuckles

today.

I Forget My Thoughts

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and remember them later

sometimes after

a minute or two

and then I go back

and do what

I decided to do

and yesterday

Panchamma and Amini

and a neighbour lady

were sitting behind

my house

on chairs and chatting

and Panchamma

was laughing aloud

and I wore my mask

and picked up my broom

and swept my courtyard

after more than a year

there were so many

dry leaves there

and so many people said

that I needed to clean it

now it looks nice

with just three or four leaves

on the concrete ground

this is how I am

this is how I do things

because not only do

I forget things

I forget myself for long

until suddenly

enthusiasm

comes along

and life becomes

a song.

There Was Nothing

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in a way

you could see

blackness

and then

there was a party

and I remember

tables and food

and then there was

that darkness again

and then

there were people

this went on and on

in the same sequence

and now I realise

I have two lives

one that I know

and one that I don’t.

Peace Descends As A Bird

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from the sky

and sits on my shoulder

and my mind transcends

this world

and is soaking in the sublime

and then I am back

here in the vault’s white and blue

I am freed as a bird

and I can also see myself down there

on the Earth

flying kites with my friends

as a boy

and soon I am able to talk

to myself across time

and I remember telling the bird long ago

as a boy on the terrace

remember me as I will remember you

and that is the same thing

I’m saying now as a bird

when I see myself as a boy

with the other boys down there

remember me as I will remember you.