Soma Debray – Borderless

By Soma Debray

The two walked hand in hand.

They stopped awhile,

Embracing under the great Banyan tree

That lay upturned;

Or was it an apple tree?

Hope and Hurt.

The booming voice questioned:

“Who has poisoned Man first?

Who has raked the autumn leaves

Till the soil, black and thick,

Flows down the river of blood

Beyond generations?”

Pitter patter.

Night dawns to day

As Hurt desires Hope.

Soma Debray, Assistant Professor in English, Narajole Raj College, West Bengal, lives in a constant state of wonder at all the possibilities life has to offer. She enjoys being a woman lapping up the challenges of womanhood. Writing for her is a joyride she waits to happen.

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By Soma Debray

Happy memories of girlhood return

With the giggling youngsters

All decked in their best

Furtive glances at may or may-not-be friends

As they chatter along.

Hair bejewelled like the night-sky

Danglers and bracelets

No signs of fear

Like the eagle flying high

They spread their wings.

Only man can defy and defeat

Only man can rise

Like the Phoenix

All aglow

Piercing the Universe

With its shrill cry

I live and will live.

Leatherback turtles are back

The neel gai roam the streets

The cheel shrieks overhead

As I gaze at the green parrots…

My girlhood returns.

Soma Debray has been a student and teacher of English literature for this half of her life. When in her twenties, she was a proud firebrand feminist, but with maturity settling in, she has opted out of –isms; finding fulfilment in womanhood, enjoying all roles carved by nature with freedom of varied explorations. She has faith in self and is a warrior for women’s cause. Women are power; power latent that need be made patent.

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