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Teji Grover

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I’m writing like this
as if meeting my blind children
in an orphanage, many years later.

How tall they’ve grown
since you left.

How small they’ve become – the words
I brought to clothe them in!

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Teji Grover

Teji Grover

(India, 1955)

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SONG OF SEPARATION - 1

SONG OF SEPARATION - 1

I’m writing like this
as if meeting my blind children
in an orphanage, many years later.

How tall they’ve grown
since you left.

How small they’ve become – the words
I brought to clothe them in!
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