Salt & Sugar

Salt and Sugar

If anyone writes a story or a long novel
About an ancient city,the days and nights
Of thousands of years,the sighs and laughs
The cruelty and love, all the sorrow
And little pieces of glittering pleasure,
Fleeting moments-
Would that story be salty or sweet?

There may be plenty of stories like that
About those cities long gone,
Invisible waves of time come back alive,
Through those looking glasses,
To murmur at a mortal ear one more time.

I'm searching for a magic door of time-
One fine evening,under the soft green sky
I might find one,with a flowering creeper
On it and it will open with a soft push...
I'll enter through the salt and sugar.


Mallika Dhar