sterlite death

there’s crazy music that rains down every nook and corner of the universe

there’s crazy music that shoots up along arteries on both sides of the skull

it is like vines of dark time

it is like the darkest flames from the darkest chambers

did the newspapers not tell you this?

soon, it will be numbers – 9, 11, whatever

and names, Vinitha, Glastin, whoever – history books do not focus particularly on proper nouns of these sorts.soon, ministers will dole cash. maybe even some dog biscuits down choppers like they did when it flooded in yet another wanton country – one that they burn just like they burn yours.

 

and when,

dusts and clouds unsettle all maroon twilight between your eyes and mine – between now and then,

the guns will strengthen the frame a bit more

the chimneys will kill the skies a bit more

we will learn to hate a bit more

we will learn to love a bit less

 

and yet, and yet,

in another mad dream, where the binaries break and battlefields fade apart,

all along those heavy hallways of time, on its rigid walls that stare

there will be eyes, bloodshot, gazing at you,

who killed

there will be backs pressed against those very walls – human backs against stern walls

there will be chests, heaving, pressed against the muzzles that you hold –

human chests against cold muzzles

 

and you, who loved

and you, who lived

to mourn the dead

to live on

for the dream, the dreams, to make happen

for the killers to be pushed back, inch by inch

down the cliffs of void, but not of forgetting

into the coffers of nothingness where they belong

 

we know not if there will be butterflies fluttering about the branches of the tree of life

but we know this, that a bit of that strange, crazy music

will play on, all along its deepest roots..

Atindriyo Chakrabarty is a poet
http://atindriyo.blogspot.in/

 


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2 Comments

  1. Sally Dugman says:

    Here is another litany for the rains:
    Lyrics
    Broken windows and empty hallways
    A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
    Human kindness is overflowing
    And I think it’s going to rain today
    Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles
    With frozen smiles to chase love away
    Human kindness is overflowing
    And I think it’s going to rain today
    Lonely, lonely
    Tin can at my feet
    Think I’ll kick it down the street
    That’s the way to treat a friend
    Bright before me the signs implore me
    To help the needy and show them the way
    Human kindness is overflowing
    And I think it’s going to rain today
    Songwriters: Randy Newman
    I Think It’s Going to Rain Today lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

    Randy Newman – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today – YouTube
    Video for Randy newman I think it is going to rain
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    Oct 19, 2011 – Uploaded by XsleepboundX
    Randy Newman – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today. Category. Music. License. Standard YouTube License …