Himangshu Baruah

An Ode to Bombay

 

I am not a poet,

I can't do poetry.

Nor the one who can write hymn

to shine through the grim.

 

I am afraid

Fear of being a mediocre

Losing all to the stare

Ohh it's so hard....how can I even dare

 

I can just speak to you

Speak to you O' city

Skyscrapers blossoming in height

O" Salty city of night.

 

I heard you were hurt

Yes It happened

Even a city can bleed

Succumbing to everyone's greed

 

Have you gone stoic?

Or is that you screaming

Amidst the night

Or hooting of an unknown flight.

O city, city of starry eyes

Sunny skies, and monsoon plight

Of the New and Old

So many stories of you, told and untold.

 

Many come and many go

Do you even remember,

And…Will you remember me?

Or will I be just a spec on your sands

 

I remember soaking in your first drizzle

Alongside the heat of the corn stove

Me and my wife, we try

Deciphering life, as it went by

 

You run through our blood

As we travel through your veins

Transiting from one station to another

Alone yet together

 

O city, city of starry eyes

Sunny skies, and monsoon plight

Of the New and Old

So many stories of you, told and untold.

 About the authors:  Himangshu Baruah is a creative professional worked more than a decade in visual artistry and communication. He has penned short stories, scripts, and poetry pieces. A lover of the outdoors, most of his art and words find solace in nature and its transcendence into the human world. Presently working in Guwahati as a Creative Head in Guwahati city, he always manages to take time out to backtrack into his subliminal world of stories and poetry.

  

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