Tirtho’s poem explores themes of disillusionment, memory, and the struggle to find truth amidst a fragmented inner landscape, exclusively for Different Truths.

My heavy lids open,
I see a mirage navigate
for a truthful pursuit
in the desert of my eyes. 
 
In my thoughts,
I carry an obsession
of echoes drifting on a road
that’s got lost in a labyrinth of memories.
 
My shadow stares at me half-consciously
as if I am a stranger to it
A deformed pang yelps in my ears,
I feel a fractured hope limping.
 
The sinking sun
seems as big as my jaded heart,
It glows the brightest
before it sets off for a long journey
into another world.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Tirtho Banerjee

A journalist by profession, Tirtho likes to call himself an international citizen. He has travelled across India, and worked in the UAE and Oman as well. Music and nature draw him. Tirtho lives in Noida currently. He has six poetry collections under his belt – the latest being ADRIFT. His poems have been published widely in a number of publications and anthologies.

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