Piyush Roy
It’s often said that places make people. The context has often been argued as a major influence towards the shaping of our worldviews. But if human beings are indeed a product of their context, then a lot has to do with who they are ‘being’ with, irrespective of where they are… Here’s sharing a poem and a tribute to one such place that has been my home for the last few years, a city that has changed and influenced me, as much for its being a truly ‘global city’ in every aspect of that term of belongingness, as also being home to citizens who have made many an outsider like me,feel forever at home. Needless to add, one of the world’s premiere destinations for literature and arts, Edinburgh, also is a cinematic city that never ceases being a photographer’s delight – come autumn, sun in the rain or winter!
You came to me like a secret reopened
Unveiling yourself like a diary’s whisper
You made me fall like an autumn leaf
To gather again like a winter’s sleep
You will remain forever an unfinished chapter
An open verse, a role well played
Some finite relations, few loves, a teacher
A boy, a student, a brother, many mentors
You told me I have beautiful eyes
Draped my being in styles carefree
You touched the skin that I didn’t want to live in once…
Found and lost me in a kiss before flight
Dreams over drinks, many hats, long walks
Lazy Mondays, busy Sundays
Drives with friends, fond fights, no end
Tinkered memoirs with wandered souls
Films off the fringe, faith in a choir’s song
You made the man in me a boy again
To argue freely, believe passionately
Make friendships like a dare
Hug relations without a care
Enriched, excited, calm and collected
Gothic, cinematic, lonely and a bit vain
Edinburgh…
I will miss you again!
