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A Symphony of Memory and Change
Your face invades my memory
on a certain stormy night.
While a song sways rapidly in the
restless winds!
Your body flickers inside the
soft wax,
when the current betrays us.
My drunken eyes give way to
the mystic jar, and I turn soft.
So soft, so gentle!
My heart melts like old fleece,
while my head and limbs,
renounce gravity.
Yet,
a lust for smokes, drag my floating
limbs, to my veranda.
Suddenly, the atmosphere shifts.
As if, it never was!
There’s the tempest!
And with it followed,
the pour.
Everything drowns.
The earth, the trees.
A tin roof floats mindlessly.
Were you that mad at me?
Did this rage find shelter in
your abode of peace?
Where do the helpless birds
claim refuge now?
These airy romanticisms,
mingle with the
dance of the deluge,
with some old questions.
They drift along with
some unborn birds,
some straws: and a hope
to build a nest once again.
And dissolve away!
Into the stormy night.
Shamik Ghosh is a professor of Mathematics at Jadavpur University. He grew up in Bagbazar. Professor Ghosh is an ardent follower of literature. His works have been published in the Little Magazine, and other such renowned platforms. He’s been a lover of science as well as the arts. Some of his previously published works are, “I shall set fire to my epitaph” in 1986, “Jebhabe poribortito ghash punorjonom khnojey” written in Bengali, in 2018, and others.
Srinjali is a school teacher by profession, the editor of Mahanagar e-zine, and a full-time reader, as hobbies go. She has completed her Master’s in English Literature from Presidency University. She has taught at Presidency University as a Visiting Faculty from 2024-2025. When she’s not thinking about her career, she’s binge-watching movies, and series, and sipping coffee.
