Self Portrait
By Srijani Dutta
I am dissolving
Yet, I am not a shadow.
I am not formless,
I have my shape, a little figure,
I coil, I tangle, and I crawl on the floor,
On my bed,
But, I am not a smoke
That is rising upwards,
Or melting like clouds.
Zero is a number
And silence itself is a sound,
This is not a blank diary
But, we fail to see the words.
I will go away
But, my feeble footsteps will speak,
On behalf of me.
Believe me, this is 'me',
This is real 'me',
This is Srijani.
Srijani Dutta hails from a beautiful place, Chandannagar of West Bengal. She has completed her Post Graduation in English literature from Visva Bharati University. She loves reading books and expressing herself through colours, words, and images. She writes poetry and has published her poems/writings in the journals like Setu, Parcham, Contemporary Literary Review India, among others. While she is not writing, she paints. Her paintings have been published in Borderless journal, Creative chromosomes, among others. She tries to maintain a balance between her research and her professional creative practices.