Dancing in the Dark by Anand R Raghavan

On the sidewalk of a private road
our dinner table preserves
a faux european ambience
even the weather
bows to cooperate
with this subterfuge

I feel anchored
in a rapturous melancholy
and a beer glass
steadily emptied and refilled

The conversation floats
like a kaleidoscope
of sentiments and opinions
accumulating into
an imagined form
of who i am

my most precious possession
created from thin air like fiat currency

to be loved or defended,
admired or understood

held by a tenuous warmth
drawn from a comforting memory
the familiar vapour trails
of my existence

Buffeted by a willingness
to both open & discard myself

When we are soaked deep enough
within a tangible dream
that we can see, smell, hear and touch
it is the inert reality beyond it
that seems mystical

That true self
which does not belong
to anybody

intimate, unconditional and universal
like the atmosphere
from which
we draw
our breath

-ANAND R RAGHAVAN

Anand R Raghavan is a third generation entrepreneur at an Industrial Engineering & Construction Company. He is a devotee of Ramana Maharishi & Nisargadatta Maharaj.

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