ON MY WAY

Let me live on my way, I’m willing to go

Across the odds, myth, man created rules

They cannot prevent the venture of

Winning the heart, in the filthy congested

Narrow lanes, among the revulsion

Faces I found life, hideous, secretion of

Pain calls me to love them, the lotus stalks

Hyacinth roots, the blemish planet,

I feel their image in the algae merged lake

Moon has assured, to lit them with

Beautiful milky ray, heart wants to hug them

Love them, keep their wounds on the

Lap, spring is not bias, generous rain eager

To outburst on the infertile terrains,

In the distressed faces the booming smile

Wishes to share unexplored flair, here

Dreams want re emerge lost beauty

Sun has no prejudice it desires to swallow

All the darkness, I wish to go trough

In the path of neglected, abandoned world

I feel suffocation in your luxurious arms

Let me release, don’t need any name, fame

Identification, I love to see only smile

On the discarded faces, junkyard made by

Society, in the brothel, casino, dance bar

Unknown faces wish to bloom like you and

Me, lesser destiny’s creation screams in

Night, the flame of abdomen, circumstances

Of life is harsh, everybody loves his life

Everyone looks the dream, but condition

Forces to sell the body, hope, an unwilling

Compromise unfolds the reality, but soul remains,

untouched entire life with restlessness -

- SHANTANU SANYAL