Leaving Behind
By Amit Shankar Saha
A poem attempts to write itself
while travelling on a train.
It is quite late in the evening
and the journey ends soon.
Lines come, merge, go apart,
and at the far end again intersect.
Between arrivals and departures
some lines do stay behind
on the platform of poems
despite their inertia of motion.
You meet them, you are moved
at the full moon-filled night.
Amit Shankar Saha is the author of four critically-acclaimed collections of poems: Balconies of Time, Fugitive Words, Illicit Poems and Etesian::Barahmasi. He has also authored Transitions: Indian Diaspora and Four Women Writers and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Essayist. He has won the Wordweavers Prize amongst other prizes and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Best of Net anthology. He is the Editor-in Chief of EKL Review. He works as Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of English at Seacom Skills University