Is
Something Lost?
this
furious digging,
this
ceaseless unearthing
of
our streets,
is
something lost?
are
they seeking something...
something
lost?
he
asked,
his
helpless hands
thrown
to the winds
of
indifference.
old
brave heart,
frail
skin,
infrangible
mind,
he
plies
the
debris of
urban
streets
in
his weathered
yellow-black,
ferrying
commuters,
ferrying
pulsating
nerves
that gallop
with
the beat
of
a city heart racing
on
the fast-track
of
degeneration.
this
furious digging,
this
ceaseless unearthing,
this
excavation of our souls
is
something lost?
The
Catacomb
it
was not until
the
dawn of midnight
when
I chanced
upon
a catacomb,
a
fictional space
I
did sight
with
layers and layers
of
paper tombs.
shreds
of thoughts
and
wastes of words
languished
in
its
desolate womb...
i
scooped them up
those
dead, dead words
glued
their wings
and
gave them flight.
they
flew into
a
herd of nerds
and
dazzled them
with
poetic light.
Blind
Instruments
Of
Providence
In memory of Gerardo
Sangiorgio
you
said
they
were blind instruments of Providence
they
are blind still, but not instruments of Providence
as
war is of their making
deliberate,
mapped, schemed for raking
what
is not theirs––
land, people, memory,
eons
of zigzagging history
what
is not theirs––
is
claimed across the seas
in
fragile and wounded territories.
they
march as angels of deliverance
angels
of a certain providence
they
come with human robots and drones
they
kill and ravage people’s homes
they
are mercenaries, those little men
huddled
in the conspirators’ den
to
seed the dream of a “new world order”
with
global wealth snatched as fodder
so
they may rule, control our destiny
ah,
the honeyed venom in their insecurity…
you
said,
they
were blind instruments of Providence
they
are blind still, and deaf in essence.
Bina
Sarkar Ellias
Bina Sarkar Ellias is poet, founder,
editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, an award-winning
publication since 1997. Besides, she is a fiction writer and an art curator in
India and overseas. Her books of poems include “The Room”, “Fuse” and “When
Seeing Is Believing”. She received a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow
Program 2007, towards the project, Unity
in Diversity, the Times Group Yami Women Achievers’ award, 2008, and the
FICCI/FLO 2013 award for excellence in her work. She lives and works from
Bombay, India.