Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
It’s easier to do certain things if you stay alone, walk alone—
it’s easier to find your sadness to quietly immerse them in happiness,
it’s easier to dress old dreams with news clothes,
it’s easier to display the memories stored in the attic of the heart.
Like stars, sky and soil, even sadness, dreams and memories are mute.
That’s why it’s easier to join their protest march when you’re alone.
When you are alone, it’s easier to
read the letter that was never written,
drench quietly in rain which has never fallen,
hum the songs that have never been heard,
and it’s easier to
unfurl the flag of the future which has never been touched,
teach the secret of flying to the trees that do not know how to,
teach the secret of walking to the hills too.
When you walk alone, it’s easier to
draw up a contract between
your morning walk and your evening walk,
it’s easier to ignore, break your own contract,
it’s easier to tear it into pieces, and
throwing some of it on the spider’s net
and pasting others on the wall, it’s easier to
lie on the bed and look at them.
When you stay alone, walk alone,
it’s easier to plan a suicide or commit suicide,
dig your own grave, or light your own funeral pyre,
imagine who will do what after your death.
When you stay alone, walk alone,
it’s easier to face God and your destiny.
Now you have more options to bargain with them.
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