Should I Lose My Memory

by Goirick Brahmachari

Should I lose my memory
Let it come back to me in nonlinear

April has gone missing, September is dry
December asks questions in nonlinear

Wake up to punishments, sleep
Through class—that seems much easier

Now there are no rivers, there are no skies
Only this life that is linear

This city has wearied, the travelers are gone
Memory, come back to me in nonlinear

 

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About the Author:

Goirick Brahmachari’s debut collection of poems, For the Love of Pork (Les Editions du Zaporogue, Denmark) won the Muse India – Satish Verma Young Writer Award (Poetry) 2016. He is also the winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, 2016. Other collections of verses by Brahmachari include joining the dots, 2016, Wet Radio and Other Poems, 2017 and A Broken Exit, 2019. He is currently working on two collaborative volume of verses titled ‘The Nightwalkers’ along with Debarshi Mitra and Non Tribal/ Tribal with Avner Pariat. His poems and essays have appeared in various journals, magazines, blogs and pamphlets.