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Dec 2013
Do I get the job sir?

Tomorrow we can confirm.

He needed an employment so badly

A boy of nineteen
An would be graduate
Thrown into the vortex of life
To shoulder responsibilities
A boy of his age would not normally be required to do.

He touched his right hand on his head
And said

I promise to come back* tomorrow.

He went out on the road
With the dream of tomorrow
Little sunlit little brighter than today

His mind drifted someplace else...

His head crushed under the wheels of a bus!

I see him standing before me
His hand on his head
His lips parting in the vow

I promise to come back tomorrow.

Have you ever wept for someone
You don’t know have never seen
For you just a piece of news
Another accident
Another death on the road?


Then you would understand
Why my tears were inconsolable

Come back boy
Come back somehow
*tomorrow
A true story. I'm inconsolable.
Pradip Chattopadhyay
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