Looking for nobody

- Avishek

I looked under mossy stones;
perchance hidden behind trees?
The parks I searched at high noon.
Scanning the face of the moon- for clues;
carrying torches to remote caves.
Deserts would yield only monuments;
books would yield nostalgia, shifting
like sand dunes, in my dehydrated landscape.
Did I lose sight amongst the scientists?
Huddled around doctors, peeping through-
black cloaks swishing; was that Atlantis?
It was while catching my breath I saw
the names, scattered carelessly on the grass.
I caught one, then another… it wasn't easy;
and somebody was always somebody.