Seiji Lushai Poems

You came to me, one monsoon night,
while I was sitting alone, frozen
at one corner of my cubicle, thinking -
soberly intoxicated and wide awake
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Tonight I gaze at the sky,
Twinkling stars sparkle and fly,
But the blue moon as always,
Void like an empty canvas.
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august ends in a lugubrious lament,
pouring its infinite downpour. in between the sky
and the ocean, here is the land, whose name speaks of beauty,
peace, equality(?) and empathy (! !) . once
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it kind of occurred to her that happiness
is nothing but a state of being happy.

the tocsin had been tolling for more than
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Everytime I ponder about the word 'we'
I feel that it's about u and I,
and my mind goes so far as if we
had known each other for ages.
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How I wish I could fly.
Red bull won't give me wings,
Instead it would make me
burn the midnight oil,
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May I have your attention!
Here comes The Hero, Alcohawla
Who carries his Hawla-bible everywhere
And preaches his gospel with his hawla-spirit
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Chapped lips, emetic skin, languorous eyes.
Living in subsistence, counting minutes after minutes,
waiting for the day,
when my soul would be relinquished
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Remember the X and Y
Plotted on vertical and horizontal lines
Where you and I were first introduced to it
In the class on economics
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Another September is coming to an end
but my borrowed-books will not be back—

the mesmerizing midnights' children,
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