OUT OF SCENE

Several incomplete expectations

Frequently haunts the life,

Meaning of early morning dream

Was shadow of date – palm,

Respiring for some moment was

Not so easy, unwillingly a lot of

Compromise didn’t permit me to

Fill the empty sketch it’s unlike

That I tried to conceal the wetness

Of eyes, on the pavement of

Metro I have seen the auction of

Immature emotion prior to the

Ripe, the unsung faces over looked

By the crowd however they lifted

The weak hands before sink, I

Often think to forget that scream

Of pain, a pathetic appeal for

Survival, a broken breath, the

Crawling infancy on the melted

Coal tar highway, the exhausting

Youthfulness hammering the stones

In the quarry, I tried to read the

Language of their eyes, sunburn

Body, skeleton chest, twisted

Physique has no whine, the wordless

Passer – by had no time to think

A moment, perhaps they were the

Dust of pre-monsoon, later settle

Down on the surface, skyscrapers

Are engaged by glittering dream, the

Weeping emotions are searching a

Shelter for only one night, though

Foundation stone had promised

Once to the mason that meaning of

Morning dreams, but they didn’t

Understand until the torrential rain,

• SHANTANU SANYAL