Incubating in paradoxes We all are, everybody And everything multiplies Needs for paradoxes; life Death, darkness, light, Blindness and insight, Visions of freedom chained To our memories. A spectral conscience stands Guard over these, the inmates harrow, Our asylums make us kneel in awe And conscientiously be fucked from Behind, in our darkened cells, sometimes Forcing open a window for us, Through it we guiltily spy Rain clouds, ripe violet Burst into an orange evening sky -- This, the painful beauty of our eyes. We all break mirrors at some point And write lies. We become saints but disguise Everyday paradoxes in a faith of despair; We search for silence in words, Twilight in the flight of birds, And the germ in our death, we prize. This, the conscience of us poets, We write poetry knowing The poetry writes us.
Saikat Ghosh was born in Jamshedpur; he has an MPhil in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has also studied in Delhi University. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at JNU where he is researching the formal development of short fiction with respect to the Progressive Writers Movement in South Asia. He also works as an editor with the publishers, Rupa & Co., Delhi and writes on South Asian literatures, cultural theory and poetry.
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