Gopal Lahiri (India) is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 29 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry is also published across various anthologies as well as in eminent journals of India and abroad. His poems are translated in 16 languages. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He is the recipient of the Poet of the Year Award in Destiny Poets, UK, 2016, Setu Excellence Award, 2020, Pittsburgh, US and Indology Life-Time Achievement award, West Bengal, India. His latest collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets.’ has received Ukiyoto Award.

 

English

 

SOMEWHERE

 

 

everyone must be somewhere.

you sound like a mourner,

you stop here,

and there,

recollect a song of your childhood.

 

you think about silence, it goes

on calling, it leaves you,

and flies out alone,

there is peace somewhere.

 

over the corn fields

searching and searching

over the river

over the universal darkness.

 

silence never lets you down.