Sunday, November 16, 2025

A CROWD by Devayani Anvekar

 

Image / Pille Kirsi

A CROWD

 

of like and unlike minds and thoughts, 

ways, taste, like ants march along a lengthy 

path cross hills. Foothills. High mountains. 

Steep valleys. Vast deserts. Barren lands. 

Crowded cities. Noisy towns. Abandoned 

desolated villages. Beside green lakes. 

Blue rivers. Calm seas. Roaring oceans. 

A lengthy life. A lengthy pilgrimage.

 

Each heaving carrying, bearing, heavy

burdens of disbeliefs or of beliefs ardent.

Obstinate. Faith in same God or a million

various Gods. Of one’s own liking or in

one’s own image.

 

In search of a path. A purpose. To move

on. Go on. Walk on. Feel whole. One

with all.

 

Not all. Everything you. For you.

You alone. All by yourself. Alone.

 

Lost.

 

Like a sole survivor. Winner. On an

immense island. 

Alone. 

With growing illusions, delusions. 

Wild  

despair. Enveloping darkness. 

Alone.

 

In search of company. 

A crowd. 

In search of Sun. Bright rays. Light.

 

Uncover lightness. Brightness.

 

Light, slow, floating hours. Days. Life. 

Time.  

 

Unburden self. Reveal an unburdened

mind.

© Devayani Anvekar

Devayani Anvekar

Devayani Anvekar is an illustrator and caricaturist of social and domestic issues. She lives in Goa, India. She writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose when drawing fails to help her grasp human struggle. Her written work has appeared in 50-Word Stories, The Metaworker, and is forthcoming in The Genre Society and Witcraft




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