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Debarati’s poem explores fading love, leaving a chilling emptiness and a haunting loneliness, exclusively for Different Truths.
Like a chrysalis, the moon lost itself to give rings to Saturn I turned a hiraeth in your love, longing to return to a home that never was. As the warmth of togetherness faded away Like the receding winter sun, Our soprano turned into a staccato. The walls of my heart burned in The toluene flames of quietude as Mara sat on my chest turning My dreams into nightmares. With a heron flying across vast stretches of Barrenness to return home, The last train left the station. That night the Old Farmer’s Almanac forecast A waning moon and Erebus inhabited the trenches of our cloistered lives. While I hummed to myself lullabies of Somnus, The stillness of the night inflated my iris with yen. Jostling between loneliness and solitude, I let poetry act as a metonymy for love.
Glossary:
1. Mara: In Germanic folklore, Mara is an evil spirit that sits on your chest while you sleep, constricting your air supply and turning your dreams into nightmares.
2. Erebus: In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Erebos, is the personification of darkness.
3. Somnus: In Roman mythology, Somnusisthe personification of sleep.
4. Old Farmer’s Almanac: An almanac containing weather forecasts, planting charts, and astronomical data.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
