Autograph of a Nobody

Dr Sudhansu Dash

Before trusting all the untrusted breathing of tomorrow

With all the unpromised going out and coming in

At last you proved me a nobody every moment.

Your virgin smiles have become tears in my eyes

And searching the past

I wait to give my disobedient tears 

As a gift to you

Lest they would be dropped and lost in silence

I am standing behind my shadow

Measuring the patience of a falling leaf

Seeing the other side of darkness

I can stand under half of the sky

And cling to the settled breast of the mother

Meaningless for the child searching a drop of milk

I am the dried out footprint of water

Everything is unclear without a beginning and an end.