Existence

So, welcome to my blog. I've not planned how to continue but I will do it......so don't expect very neat blogging from me !! Anyways, this is my first poem. Give it a read :) !

Whenever I see

A look-alike of me,

I ponder over myself

To see if that person is related;

By any means to me

And whether I’m actually “me”!

The realization of his existence

Makes me think over again,

Whether the relation of that boy around

Has anything to do with my thoughts I’ve recently found.

I feel like walking closer to him -

And asking him “Do you belong to my kin?”

Even thinking about his befitting answer for the question of mine,

It seems like he is a long-lost brother found at the right time.

Just at the moment when I’m going out of my mind,

Reality takes hold of my thoughts – those of an unrealistic kind;

And prevents me from asking that stranger,

The question that would have made him feel that I’m mad as a hatter.

Then my thinking shifts to another form,

Where I denounce the materialistic platform -

I try to find a spiritual connection

Between the two entities of my consideration.

But Alas! When I’m going deeper into the cave,

The wall of the cave crumbles down like a breaking wave!

I hear someone calling that boy “Apu, why are you so late?”

And all my speculations cease to exist in that half-alert state.

-© Anwesh Bhattacharya, June 2011

Mystical ! This seemed the best Google picture for this poem !!

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