In the deserted street of that

Dark night, a hobo, stranger man

Sang the mourn song in pathetic

Way, the trembling breath didn’t

Allow me to sleep, tried and tried

To get the rhythm of life, which

Floated on the air through the

Flute of that unknown man, on

That misty night, the pain of

Heart I felt first time, mysterious

Lyrics said in the life, breaking from

You was not only reason to weep,

The earth rejected I could realized,

However, why the sky turned down

The appeal for a galaxy night, 
-- SHANTANU SANYAL  

THE EVERLASTING MIRAGE

Feather- bed is not forever, destiny

Somewhere related to seismic

Invisible waves, unpredicted, silently

It travels, when strikes we have

No more time to collect the scattered

Emotions, in a wink it destroys the

Palace, huts, mountains, everything,

Complicated behavior of nature,

Brings the crown in a moment on the

Earth, amid the beaker and lips

A decade long distance is hidden my

Friend, the wet eyes sometimes

Invites the storm, though the blue sky

Had no knowledge about the

Condensed clouds, but they generated

Poured with full vigor, disappeared,

Some enigma haven’t created by us

The natural knot was multi twisted

I tried to unfold from one end

Another end regained new twist, the

Concealed face laughs, emphasized

Too, changing the forehead lines was

Void, however we pleaded him

Everywhere, created fabled book

Built the shrines, written the values,

Doctrines, made the crazy followers,

But didn’t accept the defeat, we forget

To real essence of life, just ran behind

Shadows, while human is created

Human, we searched someone

Desperately in the cipher as a

Crusader of life, while it’s hidden inside

Every one, its matter of perception,

• SHANTANU SANYAL

THE ENORMOUS ARCH

In the vision of life a deserted

Gate of worship waits for revival,

Offended, injured, hurt soul of -

Unidentified faces, in the mystic

Night they pick up the scattered

Blooms, on the meadow of heart,

Shadows often play with moon

Light, laughing, whispering flies

Through the wind, silently looks

Thrived, anonymous many trees,

The unique planet doesn’t draw

The hedges of barbed wires, in

This boundary less world has no

Fear of losing the precious assets,

An indulgent for each other’s pain

Makes them a beautiful cluster

Of jasmine, the passion to fill the

Silence of darkness, smiles flow

In form of sweet fragrance, what’s

Meaning of hatred, envy they do

Not know, innocent, naïve looks

Often sleep on the cenotaph of

Unsung messiah, the dew drops

Trickles one by one, they smile

In the dream as a child, someone

Moves the delicate, blessing fingers

On their uncombed hair, slowly

Life travels across the mammoth

Archway, into the paradise of love,

The shadow now altering their

Face in everlasting glow of harmony!

• SHANTANU SANYAL