The Lives of Others

My

little black book

tracks

the

lives of others

births and brides and deaths and dates;

in

curves and loops,

the

lives of others

their joys and tears and hopes and fates.

I

love

this

museum of memories

these lives of others-

present or MIA.

I

wonder

if

I

figure

in

another

“Lives of Others”

and

if I am interred there

when comes my day.

Writing a series of poems based on book titles along with Neville Craig Kumar. This one is obviously based on Neel Mukherjee’s ‘The Lives of Others’.