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November 29, 2025

121. Postcards from Naxalbari (March 11-April 19, 1981)

To understand the context please read the post number 116 dated November 24, 2025.

 

6.

they try 

To understand me

 they want to know the truth

 truth is

 I don't understand myself

 

Often

 I do enjoy being myself

 but that's obvious

 when doors around you are closed 

permanently

 

I've no respect for the truth

 I found truth

 the most blatant lie 

'something experienced' can 

only be your truth

 

I do enjoy about being me 

yet unaware

of my surroundings

 

still I'm

aware of my

terrible anxieties

my mundane tasks

 

(From my poetry collection, “Always in Transit”)