How can I be like yesterday?
The scene has changed
and I'm ****** into a new unknown
challenging me, clinging to my heels
it's as though myself I've to invent

to cope--the past dissolves, loses its grip
and is lifeless, no longer relevant
I've to assume the guise of a new man-

time has spoken and has split open
now is a new world---its contours
images and the people within
are a sea of fresh encounters-
I'm a newcomer, a total stranger
stranded in an incomprehensible  land

who and what will be on my side
to offer a comforting word or lend
a helping hand ?   Here I lonely stand
in a trajectory the language of which
I don't understand!