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For All Those

Who Have No Place

In My Life Now….

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Sandra Dustin

Annabel Jin

Zarina Duk Sin Sunil Jinu

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Sunita, Bebin

Salome

Latha

Barani

Janaki

Sushma

Sumathi

SathyaShanthi

Ravi

Goldie

Peenu

Samatha

Hema

Tulasi

Vanaja

C.CSudhir

B.F.

Irfan

Lalitha

J.J.

Lali

…apologies to the many othersWhose names have flown my memory….

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It seems eons ago now

That I would see you often…

But now all is lost in the cloudy & dim

past…

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Or is it?...

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Because your faces & voices,

Your laughter & tears

Seem fresh in my mind…..

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How?...How , you ask…after all these years,

Through all these changes & turbulence

That is life….can I remember,…recall…?

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Well, does the ocean forget the people on

its beaches?Or the trees the

children who climbed them?

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….. her first dance?

Does a girl forget her

first love…or her first kiss?

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Do thoughts get left behindIn the passage

of time?

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Does time forget to age

people?…or can autumn forget to

bring a chill?

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No, …never….And so, as spring ends and autumn

begins Your memories have

grown sharper ….Lingering in my mind,

Your laughter still echoing in my ears…

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So evergreen are your faces and

smiles,frozen , Forever young,

from the timeOf our last

rendezvous…

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While I…I, my friends,

have met autumnWho has

brought a chill to my bones,

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… snow to my once raven hair, And aches to my

joints…

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… as I limp To meet the setting

sunOf dark winter.

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TRINITy

7/3/2009