Triveni Journal

1927 | 11,233,916 words

Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....

The Real Me

M. K. Ahmed

What I call ‘myself’
Is a runaway time thief. I
catch glimpses of him
In bits of memory
pasted on album pages............
In splintered - mirror reflections
of peeled out years.........
in yellowed nostalgic letters
treasured by friends............
and sniper-shots of bile
showered by my detractors. I wonder
which one
in this vast rogues gallery
is the real me.

…….Or are these
the shadow sequences
in a wayside bioscope
of the ‘me’ held captive
in an unknowable
unreachable land
of a medieval entertainer?

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