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Kunwar Narain

A Strange Day

  


I wandered all day
    and nothing happened
I met people all day
    and no one humiliated me
I spoke the truth all day
    and no one felt hurt
I believed everyone all day
    and no one deceived me.

The miracle is
that when I returned home
it wasn’t someone else
    but I
    myself
    who returned home
        totally intact.

A STRANGE DAY

Kunwar  Narain

Kunwar Narain

(India, 1927)

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A STRANGE DAY

A Strange Day

  


I wandered all day
    and nothing happened
I met people all day
    and no one humiliated me
I spoke the truth all day
    and no one felt hurt
I believed everyone all day
    and no one deceived me.

The miracle is
that when I returned home
it wasn’t someone else
    but I
    myself
    who returned home
        totally intact.
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