Question

Traveler

Amit Dutt Dilu 

Walking,

I am walking endlessly.

Markets, shopping malls, lampposts, dirt roads,

Field huts, rivers, villages, dogs, trees, fields—

I am leaving everything behind and walking.

Walking,

I'm walking side by side, pushing through the crowd.

Millions of years from Africa

Walking alongside you.

I stumble, stand up and walk;

Walking slowly, walking quickly, walking up and down the path,

I'm walking backwards, walking with light and shadow.

I don't know where to stop,

Still I walk, I walk endlessly.

Walking to reach an unknown destination,

Everyone is walking, so I am walking too.