Transformed In A Voyage Poem by Arun P Thampi

Don't know by purpose or not
You did it to me when on tenth
For tuition, I guess on study leave
You were on the way to the city
Crowded it was, the buses that came
It being dawn of a working day
It wasn't of love, I wasn't in love
Just from a feeling to younger a neighbor,
I felt I was supposed to care you.
Each bus stopped, when people boarded
I waited for you, and you didn't move
Yet kept on gazing at me on times,
As if looking, why I ain't leaving
Leaving just two of us, together there


Angry I felt then, seeing thy deed,
Feeling thy mind, being myself not in love
Or thinking why, My care was mistaken
Finally you boarded, A bus that followed,
In final the instant before it started to move,
As if intended to leave me behind,
Gazing at me, who followed enraged.
Still in mind, is that look of yours
Standing in way, with myself behind
Though by purpose, far behind I stood
Foolish I initially felt, trying to care
A girl, not deserving it a bit
Then I wondered, why I intended
Caring a girl, that meant nothing to me
Murmured my heart, you like her'
Then I thought, why she behaving like this
Murmured my heart, she is expecting love
Making myself a lover, by end of the voyage.