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City Of Lost Hope

From north and from south
Sweating bodies are swallowed by the two-faced snake.
The morning metro vomits you into the college street.

You elbow your way in the midst of book-lovers,
In the midst of man-haters
You reach your office, almost like an outsider!

Voices echo from the past
As you tread on and along these two-hundred-year old bricks,
And then as you work and give talk, you get thirsty.

But there is no water here,
There is no water in the college square,
There are only turns and twists, morbid funs and tricks!

Ah! How you meet people you would never want to meet,
Whatever they say to you,
Deep down you know, they mean the exact opposite!

The people around, they hunt you down
Those voices ancient, they haunt you up
And as it dusks, you sit on the desolate rooftops

Would it perhaps be better to be equally unkind?
Or is it still worth retaining faith in the mankind?
And thus darkness and questions crowd your mind!

Perhaps, her heart should have stopped throbbing,
Some sixty years back,
When she killed your poet on the tramline!

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