These are my thoughts you are expressing
with such confidence, yet inexactly-
thank goodness for that!
I myself never trumpeted them with such conviction,
even if I hoped I might be right.
No, I never raised my voice,
assuming that whether I was right or wrong
only I was entitled to thunder so.
Your voice was never so authoritative
as it is at this moment-
there was no substance to your own thoughts.
Now you have stolen mine
and are flaunting them with such authority,
I can feel an odd little grin forming on my lips.
But I suppress it,
So as to salvage my thoughts
from your distortion of them.
I keep my thoughts to myself,
to spell out in my own way.
And I leave you
to stray into some blind alley and get lost.
(Raghuvir Sahay)
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