Aloke Mukherjee - A Departure

I saw your face, somewhere it was raining-
beneath your brow, your eyes floated like lily
on the placid water, on the shore your house
embraced you like a dear forgotten song with a refrain
of forsaken love, nearby stood the plush but elegant
Palm tree but you were apart from the life you
lived. You were, dear friend, you turned away from
the light of your cozy room to the cloud above with
your baritone- sang a song of mindful soul, you
sang a song for thousand years- millennium to come.

you loved the life with your arms, genitals, mind and soul
so the heartbreak, let down by love but love blossomed in
spite of the jilt, in spite of the gloom, in spite of thousand storm
caged inside the body- you assured me the green leaves, the
white lilies, the red roses would abound in my garden with a
marble pedestal on which an incredible, indelible dream of a
life desired for a while; for moments we live, for moments we die
a false continuity numbs our frontal lobe with slithering touch.
You smiled significantly to tie a knot with death!

Aloke Mukherjee

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