Remembrance Poem by Prabhakar Subramaniam

The mind harks back
To its dawn
When sleep flees
Like a bashful bride
Under a stranger's roof,
Multi-hued bubbles die
Even as they are born
Only the shades linger,
How the river claws
At the banks
Hungry for land,
Fearful of the sea;
Old wounds open up, bleed
Fires one thought had been doused
Flare up, rage and singe
One still hears the mob
At the door
Baying for blood
Fearful of miscegenation
Of the brown and brown -
I reach for my mate, long cremated -
The mind shudders, scampers back,
All one wants to forget
Are all one remembers!