Unspoken Love Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

A battle mute we’ve been waging all along
without sharing words of love or grief.
You want to wail over your tragic life
and seek my words of consolation.
But I’ve no nerve to speak with you.
Your languorous visage makes my eyes wet
yet I don’t break through my slumber.
The animals, birds and all other moving things
don’t keep silence like us for decades,
being love-sick but dare n’t burst it out.

I’m not a magpie but can respond at times.
But God forbids somehow when I rush at you.
My dear……! This silence abnormal
with buried words, tales, breaths and tears,
known only to us both, the stealthy cheats,
drove me to pour out into a madrigal,
that may make you fiery..
“ You don’t talk with every randy dealer;
you turn aside when touts approach to hook you.
….that finds a place to you in my heart.
But the thought, “ Do I go wrong? ”,
draws the reins of my mind from ‘take off.’

May God bless us both to sit side by side
and weep over our sad tales hidden in minds,
and drench and drown in rains of tears,
before we cease to draw our breath at last.
O my ……..! Before you be a crone,
change yourself into a pigeon white
and perch lovely on my palm right
and I‘ll only whisper in your years,
“ Unspoken love weighs more than anything else”.