WELL READ

WELL READ

How do you define well read

Reading few words which famed shed

Or reading thousands of words of unread

What matters is what was retained in head

For one can see God in a pebble

Some see him in mountains

Some search him within

While he is with them

sipping coffee

and still unseen

Whom should I read

To be labelled well read

I read only those who could

enter my head

I have read many a books too

Not picked by names or looks

I never memorized details

Not that they were written in braille

For I did not read them as a subject

To vomit out in discussions

Or to students give instructions

It was plain seduction

Which I experienced through them

So many of them

Many a dinner plate was snatched

Many a tight slaps to it attached

For it was an addiction

Maybe for me a salvation

Today I am not the well read belle

But at least it taught me to read people well.

21/04/22

India

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