BASAB CHAUDHURI Poems

If you belong to everyone,
You belong to no one.
That's the design.
That's how it's built.
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Often they ask me
how I am doing.
Do I really know?
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Time ends.
Yes — time ends.

This handshake —
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You said
I didn't try to understand you.

I had a feeling
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Fall of leaves.
Gentle breeze
carries them away.
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Happened.
I don't know when.

Happened.
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I look up,
I look down,
I look up,
And I do frown.
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As I stood by the sea
I saw the sky melting into the ocean,
Going into oblivion.
I looked at, gazed, saw, and then walked.
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Eternal journey—
we appear as dots in the firmament,
and vanish without disturbing the sky.
Time flows on,
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A saucer, a cup -
An equation, an idea.
A family, a trust -
Man, humanity.
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