I DO NOT WISH TO BE KNOWN: award winner

I DO NOT WISH TO BE KNOWN: award winner


Why should anyone know me?
Please do leave me alone.
I am so ordinary.
For what should I be known?

When troubled, none walked with me,
And none gave me solace.
I suffered in silence and
From all I hid my face.

Now this journey is over.
As I await my end,
In order to look pretty,
I don’t have to pretend.

I am important for none.
Why the rest of the world
Should be concerned about me?
Why should I spread my word?

I do not wish to be known.
I’m counting final days.
I just want to extricate
Myself from worldly maze.



* Written in abcb 7-6-7-6 format
* Initially written as entry no. 357826 in the book MISCELLANEA , "MISCELLANEA" . Posted as the present item on 29 November 2008.
* Awarded Honorable Mention Prize in Picky Poetry Contest, second round, "Invalid Item" 


M C Gupta
5 July 2005