# When You Told Me That! Poem by Shamik Kumar Bose

When you told me that!

I took them to the farthest island inside the Pacific!
Amidst the wildest, untouc'd flowers' rhapsodies
Where I played with those honeybees
Ah! Lovely pearls of such melodies!

Those salty foamy sizzling!
Green waves, O my darling!
Ah! So.. so mind blowing!
Within such divine
I dived and I dived...
Until they came and cajoled
And whispered with such a chorous!
O! Melt down into such a love!
So hilarious
That lonely wave inside!
One and one only within my heart
Carried with such a care!
So loving, so rare!
Since you told me that.


Shamik Bose 30.10.09 Calcutta