Friday, January 26, 2007

All You Who Sleep Tonight...!

Well this is not an original from me literally but yes symbolically it embodies the loneliness of my DIASPORIC survival instincts..... The long nights which I have spent away from home just shutting my eyes forcefully to catch a miniscule glimpse of that wonderland called HOME with all its elves and faeries.....

Hey doesn't one feel handicapped at writing these commentaries? How can one express feelings, thoughts and beliefs behind these words? How can one cross those limitations of the mind? But this poem, I think, will appeal to most of us. Anybody who ever lived must have been lonely, sometime or the other. Especially in this day and age which is enthralling with ambitiousness which makes us flock from our abodes to be successful in an alien land and among strangers......

"All You Who Sleep Tonight"

All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

--Vikram Seth

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