Anjali Mandokhot

Have faith! But not to touch it
Not to hold it like I hold this pen-
Just have faith-
Even amidst the treason
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In the tender years she crept in life
When the mind was like the wet soil,
Ready to be impressioned and dried.
My untouched cogency, she did ripple and roil.
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Have you ever seen that beautiful dame?
Oh! You must be pondering what's her name
She's called Twilight, from East she came
And everyday she comes from the country same
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'Like an unsung warrior
I tread across the earth
From one country to another
Spreading light sans mirth
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Like sentries around a proud prince
Brave, yet humble subordinate
As youthful and as handsome
Destined but to a commoner's fate.
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I put on such a tough stand-
But that is all shattered inside.
Like that ragged livery
Patched up with embroidery
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Its not always trekking up,
Even treading down is thrilling.
Its not always the height that appeals,
Depths have their own charms.
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As if I'm trying
To hold
Sand in my hand
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Leave me a vacant House
With shut windows and closed gate
Knock me not, don't open my arms,
To leave them open in forever wait.
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After years of imprisonment,
I am seeing light for a while
Gratitude! O! Memories of her lover
I'm led out to be given a smile.
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Ho! There. Be careful
There's some treason in your look
No not one- instead two
Notice of them? No one took
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Sometimes there is so much loneliness
Even amidst a crowd of comrades
That strangers to me they all seem
Amusingly doubtful, skeptical and uneasy
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Sometime ago, behind the mountain there yonder
A man had a farmhouse in that beautiful dale
Where lived many animals above ground and under
And in a pond there, ducks did sail
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Searching for the eyes
Who could read
What am I going through.
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It started with a scratch on paper
That itself came out of a dot,
Going on, to a curve like a smile
And a glimpse of her face, I caught.
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You can see only what I'll show

You can see only whatI'll show
Yet people claim they know me inside
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Like rotten flesh it stinks
Disgustingly unbearable,
Within and throughout,
All over undetachable.
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When I started,
The road challenged me,
The length of it, rebuked me.
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