Face to Face with the Present One Has Fought For

I am frightened of newspapers these days

frightened

that there must be in them

somewhere

the news

that nothing has happened

You perhaps do not know

– or maybe you do –

how terrifying it is when nothing happens

when your eyes wait with baited breath

and all lies passive

like a cold woman

Even the talk of people in the village assembly

seems like a serpent

holding in its paralyzing clutch

the tree

that would sway in freedom

I am afraid

this world which looks abandoned and incomplete

like an assembly of vacant chairs

must be thinking how ridiculous we are

What a shame

that even after centuries

bread, work and death should think

we live only for them

I do not know how I should explain

to shy mornings and rallying nights

and to gentle evenings

that we have not come here to be greeted with a salute

from them

and that there is nothing to embrace

between equals

when one stands at arm’s length

from arms outstretched for an embrace

Even accidents arrive nowadays

like panting old men

on whores’ staircases

Why isn’t there anything

these days

like the first meeting

with one’s first love?

This country

the creation of great souls

– how long, after all, will it escape

the horned fiend of death?

When, at last, shall we return

to our homes

that happen to be

like happenings –

we

the exiles from life’s humble noises?

When shall we, at last, sit

around the smoke from smoldering fires

and listen

to the proud fire’s tales?

One day

we shall surely kiss

the cheeks of seasons

All earth will then become

a newspaper

and it will carry the news

of so many happenings

one day

Pash

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16 thoughts on “Face to Face with the Present One Has Fought For

  1. ”क्रांति कोई दावत नहीं, नुमाइश नहीं

    मैदान में बहता दरिया नहीं

    वर्गों का, रुचियों का दरिन्‍दाना भिड़ना है

    मरना है, मारना है

    और मौत को खत्‍म करना है।

  2. छात्रोँ के सम्मान मेँ नगर विधार्थी संघ मैदान मेँ
    हरीश कुमार साहु
    अध्यक्ष
    नगर विधार्थी संघ
    (दल्ली राजहरा)

  3. i am interested in taking membership in your association so please inform how to process regarding that.

  4. Need help to unit India

    Does the Students of India have Guts to come out to street to bring back their President “Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam” to power once again????????

    Let us see who has real power Students or Politicians

    Hope your could understand, because if not now we cant unit all of the indian students never and ever in the future

  5. Santhosh…We would be more than happy to work in Kerala..Kindly give your contact number…we will get back to you very soon…Also you can join our ongoing campaign which is called students-youth against corruption for right to education and right to employment..Our facebook group is student-youth against corruption for right to education and right to employment. You can also join the AISA-RYA group on facebook..Contact us on aisahq@gmail.com

  6. Com,
    We want to AISA kerala unit in MES MAMPAD COLLEGE MALAPPURAM.So please inform how to process regardining that

    Hopefully
    Jasim
    Irshad
    Ajlal
    (mass communication students mampad MES COLLEGE MALAPPURAM)

  7. Com,
    We want to AISA kerala unit in mampad MES COLLEGE MALAPPURAM.So please inform how to process regarding that

    Hopefully
    Some students in mampad MES COLLEGE MALAPURAM

  8. I’m nikhil saji,from kerala.my district is pathanamthitta & my area is thiruvalla.Help me to join aisa unit in my near by place.

  9. I am Mirash from kannur,kerala.i want to know that is any unit of aisa working in kannur?we want a real left students union i,think aisa is the best,we lost hope on sfi.

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