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A Silent Summer Night

A Silent Summer Night


     silent night silent memories
     gradually grab the darkness
     and leads me to a highway
      Of rainy days
     On the beach of an Ocean
     where pink is the slippers
     where blue is the water
     where white is her floral night gown
      where yellow is the sky
      where flowers bloom in her hair
      I forget I am colorblind
      indeed I am not
      indeed I see the colors
      of things that i have not seen
      earlier when i was crazier!!
      my windows opening
      against the darkness
      the yellow curtains
      that i washed once
      on the new year eve
      waving in the air
      making me realize
      i am nowhere on a highway
      but inside my room
      Silent cries
      of the babies in their sleep
      the roaring air cooler
      the woman sleeping in the balcony
      opposite to mine
      not caring of her wayward blouse
      as the sun still reminds
      how hot the day will be
      and the night is followed
      by the husband's rebukes.
      summer here is different
      night here is not silent and still
      might sound to you like a lie
      but the flowers would have withered
      by now if you were here
      without an umbrella
      One more thing
      i want to tell you
      mornings are incomplete
      without the silent alarm
      of your touch to wake me up
      by your hands with the black mole
      you know i am not colorblind
      because i blindly look at the colors
      and chose the one i had once
      here April is ending
      but it is where T S Elliot
      starts his Wasteland
      Oh! i just dragged him in
      to make it poetic
      because i have a habit
      of making things sound poetic
      even i will leave this world poetic
      even i will drown poetic
      Even i cry poetic
      i see things like i am reciting a poem
      the crowded markets, the roadside romeos
      the beggars, the winters, the autumns
      the gunshots, the newspapers,the women
      all things are poetic to me
      even the dirtiest politics
      of the men in the chair are poetic to me

      they say i am crazy
      she said i use my poems to attract
      the girls in pink
      to follow me and fall together
      into the category of stupidity
      but i know who loves my poem
      and who does not
      Once i was told
      "i am like this"
      yes I am like this
      i have been living for seven years
      in a place called Sunlight Colony
      where the Sun never bothers to shine
      but the heat waves strike
      in every summer
      not a summer i missed
      not a drop of sweat i left untasted
      not a song of Bob Dylan
      not a word of his protest
      i missed
      whether it is summer or winter
      everything is poetic to me
      even the Russian language
      sounds to be rhymed
      even if i don't know
      when it does not snow in Moscow
      Oh! Summer nights are poetic
      Oh i can keep on writing
      without an end
      like the vastness of your blue sky
      like the never ending dreams
      of the dying old man
      Like an orphan
      i can narrate you the darker side
      of the father daughter relation
      like a river
      i can keep streaming my ink
      forget to tell you
      about the children in summer
      Oh! they are lovely
      but dirty and stink
      they love to have sugarcane juice
      the juice of the poor
      they love to play cricket
      every kid here is Sehwag
      when power goes off
      the streets are filled with balls and bats
      bigger and longer than the kids
      they sweat they sweat
      till they faint till the power comes
      for another Bollywood calling.
      yesterday a small girl in her panty
      bearing the heat with her running nose
      asked me, "Are you a Sardar?"
      i said, "no."
      then she asked, "why do you tie your hair
      why do you have long hair and pony tail"
      I just smiled with my small slanted eyes
      made even smaller than ever in a childish way
      my Hindi ran out before I could reply
      even if i would have known proper Hindi
      i would have been blank
      still i have no answers..
      where was I?
      where Am I now?
      i just do not know.
      but i still dream to be Allen Ginsberg
      watching Van Gogh's Sunflowers
      blooming on the Highway of my madness
      yes, everything is poetic
      that i know, that is why i survive

*** Ronid Chingangbam (Akhu) ***
Webcasted on May 04, 2007


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