Dr Molly’s evocative poem talks of generations navigating life’s twists, contemplating the cycle of repeats and loss of inheritance in a world of modern distractions exclusively for Different Truths.

the car moves off
            negotiating
curves...
 
you sit at the back
with 
         your husband
grandchildren...
 
          kids babble
sweet nothings
          drifting off
to sweet slumber...
 
            husband
silenced to
           nothing,
gropes for the phone…
 
In the front seat
          the young
parents
              building
their own worlds...
 
conversations
         cackling...
 
save for a
      random query
        from your son,        
marked exclusivity.!
 
       the float some
presences…
             required or
redundant?
 
is it a cycle
         of repeats?
 
generations
             ride ahead
taking things
           for granted
be it elders,
         or things that
belong to the.
            previous...
 
the inheritance
                of loss
of human bonding
predicated on
        the modern, mundane,
                fleeting
        shores...

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Dr. Molly Joseph

Dr. Molly Joseph is a professor, poet from Kerala, who writes travelogues, short stories and story books for children. She has published 14 books,12 books of poems, a novel and a story book for Children. Her poetry with its unique style, has been characterised as "Ribbon Poetry." She has won several accolades which include India Women Achiever’s Award 2020.Her latest book, Water Sings over the Stones, won the best Poetry Book of the Year Award from ALS. She believes in the power of the word.

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