Tirtho’s poem explores urban decay, broken dreams, and hopelessness in the night, exclusively for Different Truths, creating a desolate tableau with broken fragments.
The day’s distaste lingers
on the tongues of midnight shadows
that lick a flying corpse of a desire
left stranded on the tracks
of a Metro train.
In the darkness, broken voices emerge
from the deserted wheels;
a severed finger points at
the heavens, cursing it.
A stain of blood
shows bruises of misfortune;
a strand of hair is blown away
by a wind of desperation,
An empty teacup wandering on the platform
remembers an agonised face.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
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