Right here in this world
Right here on this earth
With old forgotten folk song on my lips
I have tilled your barren heart
Reaped the harvest of the land you left
I have broken down the forts made by them
I had no time to string a garland for you
Here I stand unadorned and unarmed unlike others
Right here in this world
Right here on this earth
In the crowd I am jostling to reach you
As you walked out of the prison
I swear they must have told you I am untouchable to you
Right here in this world
Right here on this earth
Your smile couriers my spring
Your tears announce my monsoon
There will be a time when I stand for trial nude under the blushing sun
That hour I shall not be judge with gazes
There must be skeleton of our words
Footprints of our voyages
Fossils of our nameless desires with its countless denials
In this lifetime I may not see the mountains washed away
That covered the relics of things I call ours
Yet there are strings of echoes from beyond,
And you are the sole inhabitant of that kingdom beyond
