Sifarnama | (Hindi)

Sifarnamaits a journey from my existence to my non-existence. I am both present and absent. I am found and lost. My quest isnt to find anything, but simply to lose myself. These poems, these verses, arent confined to a single canvastheyre free, theyre breathing. Theyll breathe more when they reach you, touch your mind, and become absorbed in you. Then Ill be left with nothing. My existence doesnt matter anyway. Because non-existence itself is a journey to zero. These poems are an attempt to give you all the colors of life. Some are my experiences, and some Ive stolen from others. Walking in someone elses shoes, feeling their painthis too has been a part of this journey. These poems, which Ive been writing for years, Ive distanced myself from them from time to timejust as I do with love. Loneliness has its own thirst, and sometimes I myself find myself in the midst of this thirst. Sometimes I find myself between me and loneliness. These poems were born from that very solitude, the moment I too was lost. They came through mewhether I wrote them or not, I dont know. They just camelike rain falls from the clouds, they fell on me. Like you, I was their first reader. I lived them when they were written. I touched the void from where this whole game began. -Anil Jinagar