EVERY THING IS FAIR

Spectrum of emotion becomes

Uneasy, whenever you appear

In front of eyes, south west wind

Carries sweet breathings dipped

Into the soft fragrance, the heart

Desires to say you, lot of unsaid

Saga but willingly too, sentences

Couldn’t unfold the whorl, just I

Search, often edges in the depth

Of your eyes, possibly this sinking

Has a beauty, life doesn’t want to

Rise above the depressions, this

Impulsive touch of eyes, reacts the

Physique massively, the covert

Passions flies as silky yarn of wild

Fruits, roams from dale to valleys,

To germinate future generation,

Sometimes it hangs on the twigs,

Seed looks the barren sky with

Dream of rains, several times in

Same way, I gazed your gorgeous

Verdant terrain, heart rouses fast

Immature emotions, to convert

Grown effect, life wishes to diffuse

Love on the surface of arid land,

Frequently I tried to touch your

Persona to dissolve in the inner

My life, this obsession makes me

More masculine, extra effervescent,

Unseen bluish flames flow through

Out muscles to mind, I entice with

Seductive way, may be not noble

However, in love everything is fair,

• SHANTANU SANYAL

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