Calm Poem by BASAB CHAUDHURI

Distance is never hazy
never out of sight,
when the fountain is not seen
it starts tinkling in the bosom -
distance comes near -
overwhelms.

The day I do not see you
I see you more than any other day -
only you do not see
that I am constantly in touch
with you -
fulfills.

This sunlit morning
the blue sky, lovely roads, people
neither I know them
nor they know me,
but they are mine -
satisfies.

Birds at the end of the day
carry evening in their wing -
I fly with them to their nest.
Had they known that
they would have been happy -
pacifies.