Apu Mondal

We need love for strength
To befriend peace
And people
To pass on the light
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I think I'll take the lighter
One- the feeling,
You better carry the love
It all seems the same,
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I might have gone
Forward,
It's just a few steps
In seconds, minutes,
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The old man needed
Changing diapers
Often,
But his wife of fifty years
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May I, so you can pass
Unnoticed, without my
Scathing gaze bother you
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What is sweeter than this soil
Giving us the coal and oil
Growing the sweetest flowers
Rejoicing in the summer showers
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I just want everyone
To become fair and white
It may not still be bright
Else people make fun
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There is pleasure in pain
Philosophers say so
Whatever we do
Let's enjoy without gain
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To the cold burst
Everyone is equal
Whether you are a beggar
With torn buttonless shirt
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How healthy I was
Until they made me
Blow up the candles
And cut the cake
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Just a few push ups
Uphill and I would be
Steady enough to walk
Into the hills
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I live like a parrot
So blissfully in my cage
People smile and laugh
Even tease me
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What's our lifeline?
Earning and saving
A few dimes and nickel
For a sweet bun or quick
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Who says I'm up
Actually I am lying on my
Back trying to get my eyes
Closed,
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See, the wind leaps too high
Making my willow bow low
And the pigeons on the ledge
Flutter like helpless dry leaves
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And the cat leapt at the
Moon through the window
Like they're bosom friends
Though I would have loved
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Keep your window open
The garden will thank you
The light would reply all
Butterfly might tattoo your
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We all have a pain
Some deeply rooted
Some still stinging
A few forgotten or
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The zeros shake me
I'm in awe of how people
Add zeros to what they
Earn, maybe it's quite
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I could be the harrassed
Poet looking at the words

They have learnt a way to
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