Sharmilamit

Sharmila Mitra, a former High School English teacher, looks at life and collects experiences, in order to write poems and short stories.

AWAY FROM HOME

The song plays again and again,

With red of new moon

And gold of morning sun.

Uncharted landscape of my brain,

I stop and walk stop and run!

The rhyming ends here...

Oh where are the hands of the clock, Mia?

She looks askance:

Are you asking me, mama?

She shakes her fluffy head,

And her lovely eyes seem to glisten

With a million words that she is not conditioned to utter.

So, Mia is no help.

Anyway she does not chew clock hands.

I do that, sometimes,

When madness takes over.

I want to stop the progress of time.

I am so far away from home,

Oh I can hear the old laughter,

And smell that rose he shyly gave me,

Those good eyes, how I remember!

I want to go back home!

But unless the clock stops counting the hours and minutes,

I know I cannot travel back in time.

Did I break the clock hands then?

Must have, in a fit of madness again...

THE END

Sharmila Mitra

6 July 2021