Mirage
By Geetha Ravichandran
 

Smudging memories,

banishing details

of the torrid mercury and methane

rising from the mossy swamp

to craft a collage,

the mind revels in inaccuracies.

To forget, we listen

to some goofy music

and watch, the tone- deaf singer

holding a ukulele

in three different ways,

trying to shake a rhythm into the lyrics.

Years later with the aid of Auto Tune

this performance could morph

into a classic song in G minor,

played by a loving father.

Geetha Ravichandran is a retired IRS officer. She writes a monthly column on contemporary issues for The New Indian Express. Her poetry has been published in various journals, anthologised and featured in The Yearbook of Indian Poetry for four successive years. She has published two collections of poems, Arjavam and The Spell of the Rain Tree.