by Subarna Mohanty
Subarna’s poem is about one’s commitments in today’s fast-paced world and how they sit beside us throughout our life, often filling us with a sorrow that others hardly care about.
My commitments and I sit on a long thread,
Hanging taut in the skyline of a city bred
To make nothing out of time, easily led
To the gallows by the river. It’s said,
They hear sad tunes, us singing to each other
With lips still as stones, so few do bother
To listen close, and most of them smother
The melody with cacophony.
Subarna Mohanty is an engineering graduate, currently on a break from life, asking necessary questions, introspecting and actually learning. She divides all her time between well-crafted fiction, well-directed movies and her not-so-well-organised thoughts, which she tries to render with a modicum of structuring through posts on Instagram as @she.tells.tales.
I can still hear the melody.. Beautiful writing!