Testament

by Aalooran Rahman Bora

World’s
just a smudged blackboard
in an old classroom;

We spend our lives
trying to clean it,
to write our lines;

or toiling to write
our lines clean enough
to be read, to be understood;

Neither cleaned enough,
neither written enough,
before we are wiped off.

 

Aalooran has been shortlisted for the 2015 Berfrois Poetry Prize.

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About the Author:

Aalooran Rahman Bora is from the Indian state of Assam. He is employed as a freelance Instructional Designer while he works on his first novel and a string of short stories. “Testament” is his first major publication.