You Are A Dream Poem by MOLOY BHATTACHARYA

I
Do you still remember
As I always do
A few years back
During our first chat
In facebook at midnight
You asked my contact
And called me instantly,
First I heard you,
Got the feeling of sensation
It seemed you eared a word
I also spoke in whisper
And rest of the night spent
Dreaming your fragile image.

II
Since then we talked
And talked a lot
That drew us closer
Without a single meeting
We desired many times
But never designed to fulfill,
Intense was the bonding
Now it is a dead entity.
We are parted
For a year or more,
Here I confess
Which you may not hear
Some harse words
I hurled at you
But you brooked meekly
Never protested rudely.
I felt you are my weakness
Perhaps your heart sensed too.

III
Now we behave strangers,
Sometimes in my leisure
When your peeps and flashes
In my lovelorn heart,
I ask myself again
Where is the passion,
Love, and lunatic desperation
Of that lady who adored me
Injected my body with arrows,
Bleed my heart with dream,
And kindled the passion of romance,
And offered me a kingdom of love.

IV
Everywhere I still feel
Your invisible presence
Your touch, your voice
Perhaps I turn a past
To you
But you are my present
And future
You never expressed
The whisper of heart.
Was it a crush
Or a drama?
A casual affair?
Now I realise
You were right
And I was a fool
To fondly believe
That all that glitters
Is not gold.
Whatever it is
We are subject
To change with time,
Grow old and die.

V
But the words
From my heart
Written with love
In your memory
Will stay for ever
As long as we breathe
And mortally remain alive,
Unravaged by time
In the readers' minds.