THE VALLEY OF FIRE

In the banquet crowd I looked

You, talking with unknown face,

However, eyes were searching to

Something else, in the climax of

Drinking session, found your body

Was there, mind unfolding the

Multiple knots, in the climax of

Union you were busy on isolation,

However, I passed before you

Many occasion, smiling wet lips

Were twitchy, uneasy, in that lilac

Night your unspoken face clarified

The affection for me, a feeble ray

Emerged from the dark channel,

Reluctantly or something more, I

Do not know, touching my fingers,

During accepting drink, reactions

Said you have already explored

My muscles to cells, penetrated

Into the heart, sweating chest

Proved that, a sensational quarry

You created might be you do not

Know, a multi circles moves in a

Point, scattering the continuum of

Colors, passions, desire, elations

In the nucleus of your love, since

That get-together night, you have

Subjugated my itinerant thought,

Now often I gaze the midnight sky

With zero eyes, whenever you

Missed to keep the burning lips on

The dried, thirsty, chest of forest,

Life wants to blaze as valley of fire!

• SHANTANU SANYAL