Some songs never fade

Only some songs
stay on, in the slippery
stream, tenacious roots.

On granite,
etched in red
telling the
pain, joy of being
alive.

Simple songs you come to meet
in

a mall
elevator
airport-lounge
living room
on

nights of misted
windows, ghostly
yards, a big surprise, in
a city on the banks of the Lethe!

Their presence
vital and relevant
in shifting tides.

Quietly, these
snatches surface
from
their murky depths.

Echo
across
labyrinths of memory,
the old tunes.

Doors open
another face pops up
in the mirror.

Songs!

Some stay on,
loyal friends hailing
in
crowded bazars.

Forgotten, the names of poets, yet
you
hum their lines of their songs
in solitude,

the words, their inherent
music
haunt a lifetime!

Bio: A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and
images. Published 27 creative and critical books— joint and solo.
A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and,
Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur.

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—Sunil Sharma
Picture Nick Victor

Bio: A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images. Published 27 creative and critical books— joint and solo.
A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award

Sunil Sharma

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