Poem - Shadows – Living in the Other’s Gaze, Poetess - Shah Jehan Ashrafi (Canada)
Shadows – Living in the Other’s Gaze
The other’s gaze:
a cracked mirror. We see ourselves
as shattering bits
and pieces. We become shadows
on high, self-built walls.
We once recognized our proud faces
in self-constructed truths.
But here, in this marshy land,
even the lotus fears to stand.
We breathe erasure.
We balance on existence’s fragile string –
a smudge looking for its outline.
Here we are mirage,
not even a flickering candle.
Our presence is ignored.
Our absence goes unnoticed.
We become strangers
to our self.
By
Shah Jehan Ashrafi
(A poem in the face of racism)
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published from Aurangabad, MSD, W.B. Editor - Md Ejaj Ahamed
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published by Md Ejaj Ahamed from Aurangabad, Murshidabad, W. B, India
