Buffeted by waves of Malayalam Background music of late youth Its whorls and whirls unsympathetic and seductive You one beat out of step in this jostling milieu of sea of brethren Rush of sound, salt of expression An endless beat till somebody kindly, belatedly tugs you into the flow flinging some English rope
The poem first appeared in The Sunflower Collective.
Carol D’Souza is a tea drinker and walker. A collation of her work can be found at linktr.ee/cblaizd.
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