THE REAL ME

 

M. K. AHMED

 

What I call ‘myself’

Is a runaway time thief. I

catch glimpses of him

In bits of memory

pasted on album pages............

In splintered - mirror reflections

of peeled out years.........

in yellowed nostalgic letters

treasured by friends............

and sniper-shots of bile

showered by my detractors. I wonder

which one

in this vast rogues gallery

is the real me.

 

…….Or are these

the shadow sequences

in a wayside bioscope

of the ‘me’ held captive

in an unknowable

unreachable land

of a medieval entertainer?

 

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