Upright and moral,
The Kashmiri family (network, meshwork)
Maintains a dignity and respect (interlaced)
Within its own structure (inward-looking, strong)
That fails to see the outside world (it doesn’t exist)
For anything important (family, family),
A self-referential oasis in the dead-souled gloom (locked-in, solid),
Riding the waves of News like a little boat,
Pretending the Sea isn’t there -
Islands are all right,
But isn’t love turned inwards just selfishness?
A poem about an Asian family that is so turned inwards with its love that it doesn’t value the outside world
