As Delhi gets ready for the harshness of winter once again, here are my remembrances on the city that I used to know:
Unreal City
Delhi, Winter, 2010
Foggy, unreal city,
Night at day.
The sunrays have bid goodbye,
The moist air strikes the skin
Like a cold sabre.
Dark, shrouded characters
Seen through the haze;
Scurrying crowds,
Hurrying in the mist.
The spark of a welder
At a construction site;
Fire meets water.
Dimmed lights glow
Inside cavernous buildings.
Fog lights of passing vehicles
Cut through the haze;
Dust rises from the wheels,
Mixes with the fog
And forms a cumulus.
The white, moist cloud
Flies around buildings,
Nuzzles across window panes;
And thus having made its journey,
Quietly hangs fluttering
Like a bat from the trees.
Mist rises from the water,
And hangs above the frothy canal;
The cold wind blows
From the snowy, distant north.
Huddled by the roadside,
Freezing limbs are warmed by
Blazing fires.
Foggy, unreal city,
Night at day;
Life goes on.
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