An eerie day-break
Morning ; after long silent night,
But overcast. A faint glimmering light,
Like a shroud, as if, covers something gloom—
A morbid look all around.
A few crows out and out vexed
Flapping their feathers on an old shrine dome
Looking below at a lone dog crossing the lane
With a tattered piece of bread in its mouth.
No wayfarers, nor a single shouting hawker even.
A bent-down gray-beard sitting at a balcony
In an easy chair, Indulging in some grotesque thoughts—
Who’ll set up a colony on the moon first?
When man will get settled on the Mars?
Should they then bear with them swords and lances,
Bows and arrows poisonous to encounter with Jupiter
And Pluto and their galaxy of cosmic armies?
A boy and a girl are sitting at a drawing room,
Away from one another, staring at the television screen,
Watching eagerly how some persons, strange looking
Preparing themselves for flying to another planet,
perhaps this globe will be habitable no longer,
They think, so the people are leaving the Earth forever.
(Re-edited)
Dulal Chandra Bandyopadhayay
29/08/'22
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