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Timekeeper
Wall clocks,table clocks,digital clocks... shining new
Elegant flashy wristwatches .....giving time to view
A clock-shop selling time------- clocks and watches
Suiting all budgets and fancies ....... young and old
Fresh stocks of designer watches ....plated in gold
White bearded man ....... walking down the street
Looking at his frail wrist... my heart skipped a beat
A century old ..........handwound mechanical watch
My latest quartz watch............. was just no match
I asked him the time............ He said he didn't care
for time .....since he had already travelled very far
Then show me your watch ..........I'd love to see it
He grinned merrily... I mused if he was mentally fit
He unhooked his watch....said.....Take this my son
You may enjoy time.................... but I have none
He strutted away leaving me shocked and amazed
I peered at the watch................ at its dial I gazed
Made in Switzerland .............Eighteen Eighty Four
It had no hands............. only the picture of a door
© Bishwanath Mukherjee
