Identities in a mirage

Identities in a mirage

And the identity,

to identities

changing the guards.

Bartering self to others,

feinding messages erupt

yet in wane, as the

target set, all set. Yes.

Time controls and commands

circles, moves and pints.

Whom to see? Yet it does

from the tail to the mouth.

Yes, it does so, and so on.

The identities in a mirage

doting, cooing, finding

and ogling in a chain;

the fissures and craters

the loop and the chain

the vision, the revision

and a silence that sustains.

R P Singh (Ravindra Pratap Singh) is a Professor of English at the University of Lucknow.

Besides his contributions in academics and research, he is an award-winning playwright and poet. Flea Market and Other Plays, Ecologue, When Brancho Flies, Shakespeare ki Saat Ratein, and Antardwand are some of his plays. Cloud, Moon and a Little Girl, Pathik aur Pravah, Neeli Aankhon Wali Ladki, Adventures of Funny and Bana, Two Violet Flowers represent his poetry. He writes in English and Hindi with equal ease and felicity.