Two

Shaleen Rakesh
Literally Literary
Published in
1 min readJan 31, 2017
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The long day
is almost over
a little before
the evening turns

an orange colour
of summer
thickens over Delhi.

At the corner
near the metro station
I contemplate
the infinite silence
of a poor boy

our two journeys
run together
for this moment

and as if carried somewhere else
there we stay.

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Shaleen Rakesh
Literally Literary

Poet, warrior and urban monk. dead-in-the-woods activist and daydreamer. I write on relationships, love, intimacy and loss