POETRY | MEMORIES | THEMATIC EXPRESSIONS - LEGACY
Legacies and Longings
Free Verse
Prologue:
Legacies matter. Here’s where the whole range of emotions are chained,
joining the past to present, and perhaps, the present to future.
I go down lanes of parched journals-like memories,
preview suppressed stories of resilience,
stories I’ve been told, then wanting to change some
of those narratives for my parents and forefathers - those but
now concealed in the unassailable cobwebs of deeply buried caskets…
Interlude:
Amidst the lacy arabesque cloudiness
and shaded sepia spaces, moss-filled walls go on with
their perpetual whisperings about tales of
yards of rock sugar candies, dry coconuts, and fragrant soaps, and
small grocery outlets — the métiers that sustained my ancestors,
with hopes for their generations too.
Airless and raggedy portraits disclose white lies:
A fabricated propinquity of youth and senility secluded in echoes,
and while I stare intensely, “they evade” me,
akin to meaningless times of fuzzy fetes and vague birthdays,
and then “I evade them” on the renunciation of hopes they had for us.
With distorted signs, their…
