Love Poem-4 Poem by MD MOZAFFOR HOSSAIN

Love Poem-4
26/09/2023

In a lazy afternoon, I thought I would take a stroll
With rested pace I hinted my steps to your place
I didn't think of you, but you were latent in me
Sans my sense, took me there some hidden urges

As on the front gate a knock I gave
A usual welcome I was waiting for
But a fairy drenched in beauty opened the door
It was you, my love, but then, I knew not
Rather seeing you bathed in elegance; I was in shyness caught

Time went in its careless poise
I kept on moving ahead, got everyday my insipid days gone
Life took me farther from its past
Accustomed was I to being the unloved one

They say life, to many, gives bounties endless
But I was in the spare list
Being happy or unhappy, could I afford none
Among the millions thriving, just another face I was

Then one day, after I came back from selling my brain cheap
One rendered me, "A Girl Phoned for You! " with intent deep
I thought it must be a mistake, may be a namesake
Do I deserve to be looked for?

I went to the man with the phone
For I was far remote from owning one
He gave a number, said, "Your sister it was."
I have none, let's see whose concern I did cause.

On a paid phone dialed I the digits
Soothed my right ear the sweetest of voices
It took time for me to recognize its owner
But it was you I never dared to look straight

My surprise knew no bounds, but we talked
At best our whereabouts we exchanged
To the sincerity of the words, was I drawn
My unloved soul felt like dancing on the love-soaked lawn.

A day after at best
Since my foolishness drove me to restlessness
Without caring for logic or sense
I fell for the one behind that necromantic voice

Amassing all my courage at a single knot
Before I could know, my imprudent self uttered,
Ruma Apu Apnake Ami Valobeshe Felechi
The world around me as if mattered a naught

Then I heard you sobbing from the other side
The most unbearable guilt suffered my heart
I fought with air to bring back what I said
With desperation I wished if only could I undo it

Then you, in teary tone, bestowed happiness on me
That you had loved me before even I did
Heaven bowed to me, for I was the loved one
That's the most precious of treasures I am blessed with ever.