An Imagined Conversation

An Imagined Conversation
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At the library today,
both of us
were working,
and reading

eyes on the page,
your hair, settled,
from its colour, life
i could smell all of it

time came, the closing hours,
we wrapped our work,
ready to leave,
nothing exchanged between us two

Came out,
looked at the falling snow,
you came, stood beside me,
nothing exchanged between us two

You could have asked,
Are you an Indian, and me,
are you an European,
nothing exchanged between us two

Stood in silence,
looked at the snow,
both of us, together,
both of us, far apart,

Where we stood,
this safe life of ours,
homes far away, like our selves,
nothing exchanged

When i was a child, in school,
I had read a story,
talking of a time,
when aliens invade the earth

They discover a Mickey Mouse
video, amidst the pall of
snow that covered earth then,
leaving its actual inhabitants dead

Seeing it, they, the aliens
thought, that we,
you, me, our earthy
brethrens were like mickey,

Today, seeing the whites
surrounding us, wanted I,
to talk to you about mickey,
one, i had read as a child

yet, nothing exchanged
you walked away,
i, come here, and write up
an imagined conversation.