Kabir agonises about the meaninglessness of contemporary existence, giving us a slice of the urban life, in this verse, in Different Truths.
More kisses, fewer conversations
One truth is yet to be seen when love arrives
Hands weaving around the other
Books closing with scared libraries
Meeting today happens in a restaurant
Where he talks of how to bring a secrecy around
Plucking flower of imagination
He replicates from one to many, constantly
She today has forgotten who Rumi is
In this world, she only remembers Zuckerberg
Facebook live & Skype helps them feel the love
They today visit a temple to make the world see
God is meant to keep love strong
That world itself is busy in shattering threads
Today they seldom talk of words
Hours spend thinking of a love emoticon
Albums becoming rare & hard disks abundant
Kisses turn into intercourse within a moment
Even the eye fails to compete
Libraries are to be forced to go to homes
Oscar Wilde today feels his pen has been desecrated
Thousands of cloths meant to drape a single body
One failed love book treated with utmost care
To help nourish two loving souls
Cans of sugar today slide off the desk
Not to open a book or a letter
Which arrived after many sunrise & sunset
But to open the cloth draping one body
Where the other will segregate her pieces
Today books are read when they become movies
Harry Potter is seen on the face of Radcliffe
Not through the eyes of Rowling
Forrest Gump's quotes the word "Mama"
With the voice of Tom Hanks followed by applause
In between all of this chaos
Winston fails to find himself & his Gump
World today lives & dies simultaneously
Many think it has returned again to hold them
But it still lies in their own grave.
Picture design Anumita Roy
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