Saturday, May 15, 2010

Of mp3s, emails and old friends

Of Mp3, emails and old friends

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I was in some confusion
whether to write about this
in bangla, my mother tongue,
or to stick to the language of business
english..let it be..

I let it be..
business ruled..and
so did history as on that fine evening..
i dug up my emails from yore..

And suddenly remembered
all of your faces..
old friends
to whom i had sent all
my choicest songs
perhaps irking you with my
own choices,
irreverent to whether you
liked them or not.

Today on a fine evening
after a sunny day
that decided to end without a whimper
or a roar
those mails, mp3s and all of you

touch me painfully
somewhere in my soul
tears roll down my eyes
for all the days gone by
and some of those mp3s
keep playing in the background

a harmless poem
sums it all
an obituary for that decade,
filled with you all my friends, emails and the mp3s..

I am still alive..
only just..
still tinkering with the words..
remembering not only you
but even myself which once comprised
of emails, mp3s and you all, all my friends..

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