Saturday, 28 October 2023

Nobody or somebody?

No grandeur required, no extravagant facade

No need to stand out in a crowded crowd

No need to be odd

To be nobody or not to be somebody,

a timeless art you see. 


~M🦋


PS: The poet is aware of the fact that only a privileged person, like her, who holds the luxury of social and cultural capital is capable of being a nobody. No Dalit or black or queer or refugee is free to be a nobody. But, the poem is consequence of her current schizophrenic state of being, something that modernity offered. 

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