THE MIDNIGHT RAIN

Tidal waves may be receding, moon

Has to change the shapes, the brook

Depends on the rains, shifting is the

Part of life however true love never

Shrinks it stays on the heart eternally,

The flying clouds had no fixed bestow

Point, emotion sometimes forgets to

Follow your path, brief halt doesn’t

Mean that I do not love you more, the

Boats of river travel parallel flow, its

Easy to go in inclined way, something

Is left near you, I came back closer you,

The appeal of your silent eyes couldn’t

Vanished though storms passed many

Times, confusions were short eclipse

Lunar beauty sustained forever, in the

Tip of day and night, twilight becomes

More exigent, it fills the night bloom

With obsessive aroma, the dried dream

Feels the sensation of first rain, down

The upper lip, touch me not flowers

Grow the shivering leaves, impatient

Desires says touch me again and again,

Wild emotion doesn’t wait for gloom,

Persona embraces you in psychosis way,

These up down waves of life has just

Veiled beauty, the vapors appear after

Saturated dry surface, the rain implies

To soul, mix the fluidity of love viscous!

Invisible glue joints emotions intact,

Midnight rain existed until the morning.

• SHANTANU SANYAL