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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575691" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The City, the Solitude, the Soul</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every time <br>I try to fall in love with this city<br>I fail miserably.<br> <br>Somewhere, perhaps<br>In a dirty corner, <br>In a nasty crevice, <br>In a squalid lane, <br>In the slush of drain<br>In some smoky street, <br>In some noisy cafes, <br>In the madness of tavern, <br>Above a haughty sky-scraper, <br>Down the corridors of power, <br>Under some dense cluster, <br>Under some muddy feet, <br>Is hiding its soul……..<br> <br>There she writes, <br>About the historic aura<br>The grave of Omar Khayam, <br>About monsoon rains<br>Episoding the excruciating heat, <br>About peacocks and dance, <br>About bangles and romance, <br>About ruins, history, chance, <br>Poetry evoked by city, <br>Poetry! From filth, dirty, <br>An aimless roaming<br>In its airless streets, <br>The solitude in the sole<br>The soul in solitude, <br>In college, in university, <br>I try to fall in love with this city<br>I fail miserably.<br> <br> <br>I look at the elusive vehicles, <br>I look for soul, <br>I drink coffee with you, <br>I wish to drink from soul, <br>I listen to the grunt of donkeys, <br>I hobnob with the landlord, <br>I pay, I lodge, <br>Try to gather my peace, <br>I try to take it home, <br>Heart aches, heart says<br>‘Console it ably…….<br>The sole in solitude, <br>Try to fall in love with this city’<br>Every time I fall………<br>I fail miserably.<br> <br>Somewhere it’s hiding, <br>I no longer look for it, <br>There are no stars to guide me, <br>Ah! The strange city, <br>The unfamiliar faces, <br>And solemn-looking ill graces, <br>This place is not mine, <br>In it’s richness and diversity, <br>Its grandeur, its poverty, <br>How could be its melancholy! <br> <br>The sole is solitude, <br>The solitude, my soul<br>These people, these restive people, <br>This elusive immensity, <br>I can’t share my sole, my pride, my melancholy, <br>I say this with honesty, <br>I remain at ‘home’, <br>Remember my home, <br>My soul, my pride, my melancholy, <br>My people, my roots, my history……<br> <br>I hate this city, <br>I’m telling you honestly! <br> <br>I am a failure, a<br>I fail miserably…………</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(September,2007)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Feroz+Rather">Feroz Rather</a><div class=q>
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I try to fall in love with this city
I fail miserably.
 
Somewhere, perhaps
In a dirty corner, 
In a nasty crevice, 
In a squalid lane, 
In the slush of drain
In some smoky street, 
In some noisy cafes, 
In the madness of tavern, 
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