Have we studied together?
Or some function
In the same row
Was it when you got tired standing in the queue
Or else at some bus stop
Or
Not in the telephone book
Maybe in the list of people to be invited
Among names that are listed hoping
They might come in useful sometime
No, not even that
Were you the same before?
I don’t remember
Uttering your name
For any purpose
You are like people in dreams
The one who fell in the well
The one who was driving
The one who stopped me even before the sea,
Something like that
I think your name exists for me to forget it
To think I am mute is one way
To think you are deaf is another ..
Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 12:42 AM UTC
Have we studied together?
Or some function
In the same row
Was it when you got tired standing in the queue
Or else at some bus stop
Or
Not in the telephone book
Maybe in the list of people to be invited
Among names that are listed hoping
They might come in useful sometime
No, not even that
Were you the same before?
I don’t remember
Uttering your name
For any purpose
You are like people in dreams
The one who fell in the well
The one who was driving
The one who stopped me even before the sea,
Something like that
I think your name exists for me to forget it
To think I am mute is one way
To think you are deaf is another ..
translation : Anitha Varma
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