English Poetry : Debopama Sensharma

 



Debopama Sensharma



Hush!
---------
               

Five cities, five schools
Fifty teachers and one complain--
"She talks and talks and talks,
between classes and during them!"

More cities, countries, colleges
Five hundred friends and more;
I was their Scheherazade,
1001 nights, they heard and lost score.

One city, one kitchen, and a room,
Did what thousands could never do.
Where did I spend all my speech?

Oh, I know. I bought my dream.
And, it came wrapped in a tongue
I know not how to speak.
---------