Stream of Consciousness (Part 1)

[zafrin.eng]

Stream of Consciousness
(Part 1)
I see your sepia picture, not you.
The place I am inclined to.
Like an absurd play
You denied the clock time.
Not your time I'm searching for
The bilateral paths, the bird-left trees
Haunting my memory lane.
Found it
In my old dream tonight.
Google map kept it unseen
Hidden in my left hemisphere.
Watched from a high balcony
Looked like a ghost abandoned graveyard
Beside the Shatmasjid
As it looked in 1980.
A marshy land I had to pass
To reach where you were once.
Was not surprised a bit to see
Some half-done mughal forts
Placed in the panorama view.
Went there but my feet didn’t touch
The crinkle and axes of the path.
I reckon your ghost, with me
Showing me the path smilingly.

[Umme Atia Siddiqua]

Nice Writing.