"Cartography of Silence"

Moments hovering on the edge of becoming....

Today I don't wish to say much,

I want my silence to speak for me,

I'm very sure the way I connect the dots, is a pattern that hardly exists.


I know the captain barely take these things into consideration,

Upon which I spend my days.


It's not a hysteria but a real hallucination where I see myself,

sometimes in Paris but often where the Volga whispers.


Before the voyage carries this ship abroad,

The steps of 'whom' I'm the sailor will first belong to the Tiger's land,

Though it lies within our borders, to me it feels more distant than the French boulangerie.


When my first salary arrives, will buy a canoe so that I will get the chance to serve as a sailor,

Where the path is not shortened by any Suez canal because I asked for it to Vasco da Gama,

Where my first arrival will change the name again, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape of Captain.

                                                                              - Tanu ki Kalam Se....


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