Hopeless Hope!
(A lament)

 

Between this world, and my realm,
A voice peers at me, and says:
“There is a lapse, a great lapse –
Can you see the slip?
The sun has died,
And your hopes droop…
Like the leaves on the Ashoka Tree.”

 

For me, the sun has died,
And my hopes droop…
Like the leaves on the Ashoka Tree.

 

One chance meeting,
Only once!
Even through my accidental death…
Could liven up things,
And revive my hopes.
My fortitude would then become,
Taller than the Ashoka Tree.

 

 

1998

 

                          

Geeta Chhabra

 

Glossary.
Ashoka Tree – A rain-forest tree, possessing dangling foliage.


 
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