A Piece Of Art Poem by Binayakumar Mohanty

You insisted me
for the painting
which I had thought of
never.

You told
You badly needed it
for your drawing room
for a complete
finishing touch.

Everything else
was well furnished
in the room
But, you wanted the
piece of art.

I could have return
you squarely
as I did not have
one
or in my gallery
I did not have one similar
either.

But I did not.

I was busy painting
a hand to feed the
Gypsy
under the Banyan tree
hungry
long before.

Will he be there!