UNFORGETABLE NIGHT

Do you remember that rainy night?

More beautiful than expectation,

Those delicate moments, dripping

Down water crystals, wet intimacy,

Some shilly-shallying candle lit dinner,

In that misty darkness, slowly -

Touching by you to my shoulder,

Arm, closeness of shivering lips, the

Extinct of exotic, exclusive perfumes,

Rising the addiction, armpit odors,

The winy smells with long breathing,

Going up the smoke of half burn

Cigarette, I have surprised when you

Said me “yeah, its manliness, full of

Vigor, a passionate experience to

Play with flames “that inflammable

Desires had the rare beauty, beyond

The description, it’s difficult to say

How much time consumed the

Flying gray smoke to turn the

Cigarette in particle of ashes, candle

Was melted, or someone blow off,

Mystery remained in depth of eyes,

Tuber roses might be invaded the

Solitude of our soul meeting moment,

The blooming perception replaced

The smell of tobacco, the sweet pain

Prevailed through the body to mind,

Nocturnal anonymous flowers had

Scattered on the surface, the terrace

Garden was looking more dazzling

Than ever, though it was clammy,

I looked first time dew drops in your

Inclined eyes, in the first ray of life.

• SHANTANU SANYAL