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Piku celebrates the mundane life of a dusky girl, beautifully, in this poem. An exclusive for Different Truths.
A dusky girl on footpath now Puts a palash in her hair The burning red in tresses glow Radiant life and radiant fire. Heat and grime and sweat of life Mingles with the jubilant glow Beauty in the dusty forms On the pavement rising slow - Swirling mingling in the hues Of the metro skies that breathe Love and life and hopeful stars Beyond the lust and hate and greed. Smell of metro loving life Melting, hiding, healing scars Hues of metro palash blossoms Washing blood red stains of war. In the palash burning bright By the metalled dusky roads Hope and life now sport in smiles Of the girl with a flower in hair. Life in pavement, life in streets Life in heat and hope in the sky
Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths
