Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 10, No. 4: CLRI November 2023

Mainak Samanta

The Wall

I started walking by

the wall made of bricks

Freezing cold and dry

With a lot of colour tricks

With black bricks at the bottom

And reddish after that

Getting yellow in the middle

And colours reversed after that

The wall with lots of windows

Decorated with colour

With design, entity, size and shape

Different from each other

Some window show love, happiness

Some proud victory

Some rituals, festivals

And some true history

After walking 100 steps

The mystery gets more

It feels hot now

With yellow bricks more

Continued walking by the wall

Amazed by its appearance

Every step discovers more

Tells more about it's essence

After 100 steps more

The bricks get wet

As if the heated yellow bricks

Started to sweat

After some more steps

The sweats dried up

With mild cold mild hot

But the harsh on a stop

The state got nice

But not so long

Again after some steps

The cold comes along

Suddenly I stop

And realised it's the starting

With same bricks, windows

And their amazing design

I loop around the wall

Again and again

Every time like new story

But the same words chain

This way I repeat the story

Of the mysterious wall

365 steps to make a round

Of the 24 bricks tall.

About the author: Mainak Samanta is a passionate writer who writes poems, short stories. He is from Howrah, West Bengal, India. Being a Bengali boy he has been inspired by writers like Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray. Currently he is a Final year Engineering student from IIT BHU.
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