How Far You Are Indeed! Poem by LALATENDU KABI

It was just a little joke that you didn't bear;
You listened not, and are now so far my dear!
The words on your lips, the grievances in the heart:
You stepped on them and in your silence you crushed!

How far indeed are you, without a word to hear;
Some time from memory's trash it'ii on surface appear;
You will brood in silence making a stone of the chest,
And for your bygone love you will make a quest.

From your face vanished shall be your smile,
your cosmetics faint, hairs lose, shall cast a sad profile;
Hand in hand, in silent care, measuring as you move;
Careless shall be your look, though you walk gently like a dove.

People will come as own, on the look out of your fault;
If you utter my name, on your fame to make onslaught;
Howsoever they pose, howsoever soft their words be;
To keep safe from infamy and disgrace, never speak of me.

Lalatendu Kabi