Suryadip Mukherjee
smprometheus1@gmail.com
In jeans and t-shirt I stand
On the equator
Perpendicularizing myself, I see
Through past and future.
Just like a doll with a spring, I can
See all around myself,
Although my vision stops
Where the seven seas end.
The Thames becomes my target, the
Tower Bridge that also
Sleeps the Statue of Liberty
When I have to go
And take the mirror to reflect
The infiltrating glow.
I wait with my cell phone, with
Plugs in my ears
I stand out of the map
That engulfs my yard,
Then the maps grow up
And covers the whole world.
Now, boundaries ebb away
And beyondness is the hope
My t-shirt becomes a map
My jeans . . . another globe.
When I chat and net
A lighthouse I become,
That looks towards the west
But stands as if mum.
Born on 2nd Dec. 1989. After completing basic education graduated with English hons. Then M.A in English (first class) from Calcutta University. Interested in creative writing from adolescence. Trained in recitation (district champion) and elocution. Own the first prize in all Bengal poem writing competition organized by Paschimbanga Bangla Academy (W.B, India). Interested in postcolonial studies, Indian writing in English etc. At present working as an assistant teacher at a school.