5.26.2021

Shyamali

Consummate professional

One with the dust

Settled on the floor

Sweeping from this door to that door

Back unbroken

So it seemed

Spirit unbowed

Although

Your life was labor

And to us, what more?

Your Hindi must have met

My Bengali

Further along the line

Hand on hip, smiling

Accepting your lot in life

Not having any options

Maybe

But finding respite

In what never changed

a rag, a jhaaro, and the light

in your eyes




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