The Tune Vague & Hardly Audible

A poem of longing and desire, by Tirthankar, exclusively for Different Truths.

At the farthest end of a shimmering road,
vague and hardly audible
was a song sung by someone I didn’t know –
at the farthest end of a burning road.

The song was a tune afloat
in the eddying air, like the skirt
of a whirling gipsy woman,
red, blue, green, white,
all shining in a dizzying cloud.

What shimmered that day
at the farthest end of the lonely road?
Unattended and scarcely heard,
the skirt, like a gipsy’s, glowed. 

Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths