Sangeeta’s poem, exclusively for Different Truths explores hope, old wounds, and dreams as the year’s final embers fade, promising fresh beginnings.

The residual stage of the year,
Covered itself with the snowy blanket. 
 
Slowly weaned away
For the dawn of the new year. 
 
Droplets of shimmering light
On the spectrum. 
 
Inviting welcome notes and wishes
For the generosity and grace adorning the year.
 
Heartaches were again intertwined with hope
And dead butterflies jumped into life
And started hovering. 
 
The year has set sail
The surface is still the same.
The tides lash and heave the ship. 
 
The year, as usual, started
With alluring promise 
 
Would you say this is how it deceives you?
Every beginning.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Sangeeta Dey Roy

Sangeeta Dey Roy is an author, poet, fiction, and non-fiction essayist who has been published widely in several magazines, souvenirs, newspapers including The Assam Tribune and Telegraph, national and international anthologies and co-edited a few magazines and the anthology named,” Mystic Reveries”. Her debut book is a collection of 81 poems. She’ s a member of ispell and IPPL. She hails from Haflong, Assam and is a teacher by profession.