Cities
Cities - Sampurna Chattarji
Cities
So tell me.
Is it hot?
Does it rain?
Are there places
you can sit on a sunny day,
away from the crowd?
Is it beautiful?
Is it loud?
What do the streets smell like?
What do the women wear?
Are they pretty?
Do you love it?
Could you leave it?
Will I like it
if I come?
Alone, away from home, we exchange our cities
like vows.
From 'Absent Muses', (Poetrywala, 2010)) © Sampurna Chatterji 2010. Used by permission of the author.