Roopkatha Banerjee of Mahadevi Birla World Academy was one of the students on Ranan's 3-day
SchoolConnect journey 'Music-Movement-Madness', which explored music, sound and the lack of it through a workshop, an interaction and a performance.
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| Day 1 workshop at MBWA |
Here is a poem she sent us on the Ranan SchoolConnect Hangout on Facebook after the performance on the third day...
The Sombre Silence.
Today, I am no longer whole.
I have been wounded,
I have been wounded,
And thrust in this cage for all eternity;
They have taken away my music.
They have stripped me of my soul,
They have torn apart my limbs,
Piece by piece. Yet; I am ashamed to face them.
"Speak a little louder, for I am deaf."
Despair and denial sets in,
Despair and denial sets in,
Like a noose around my neck.
I am choking; I cannot breathe
....do I truly deserve this?
The robin's happy chirp,
The beat of their tiny wings;
Absorbed. Like blotting paper.
This thundering quiet; is all I have left.
And this is truly, the worst fate,
He has an embittered sense of humour.
The last strains of those faint notes,
I can still taste on my lips; it is like nicotine to me.
I pray fervently, for a miracle.
I desperately hold on, in search of redemption.
Suddenly, I realized why he looked that way;
He had retreated into his own noiseless world.
I writhe in mortal agony,
But there is no pain
It is only;
Silence.
My own self fights back,
It claws at me from within.
Self-acceptance; the one thing
That I dread more than life itself.
I am ready.
Ready to face death, head on.
But; I am not ready.
I must first express all, that is within.
Those furious scribbles on the worn out parchment,
The faded grooves on the old record,
These, are what I live for.
Yet; these are what I die for..
Here are some glimpses of the 3 days, which ultimately inspired Roopkatha to write.
Thank you to all the students and staff of Mahadevi Birla World Academy, La Martiniere for Girls and Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan for being part of this amazing journey.
