Portrait Poem by Raj Arumugam

Portrait



Four truculent decades have trundled down the slope
and the subject life's left me is myself.
Not a Rembrandt self-portrait or a Picasso
or even a tortured Vincent;
merely a portrait to hang in
the closed-door dusty gallery
of a man who has no claim on the world




(from The Migrant - notes of a newcomer (February 1997- July 1998))

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