Debayudh Chatterjee

Within a park of lusty flowers,
the charm of His flute as empowers
ah fair maiden, oh, drown all fears
and join me, join me, join oh….
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These evenings are really too much for me…
As the sun and the stars make love…in their dim light
I feel as I’m burning…
The whole day
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Your blue slippers still recline on the terrace
As if in a stupor….Dog-chomped melancholia
Swathes the touch of your feet…..
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And it was twilight then
And it was noon
Within each maze of my hearts’ den
The game was all on tune
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Its better than my speech is choked
All so dark black and blue
So that I can never utter
Another I love you
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As life patters upon the dark decaying hallways of death
I see myself murmur in its faint but regular rhythms
more like those bass-guitars… searching for tunes
midst burnt cigarette ends, ashtrays, remnant coffee-cups
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I see stars burn out-
the scents of their ash reverting like words
within hollow pillars, trying to unfold
Weird mysteries of paper origami- a blank sheet of thoughts
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Scurrying through unraveled steps leading- hell
I wake up in desolate deem corners of life…
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Winding up through cases of broken stairs
I reach rooftop before dusk
Alone… in the strong gusty wind… bird’s eye view upon existence
I see the world bathing in myriads of hues…
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Right now a thousand of mortified waves break at my feet
Right now in my conscious I feel the wind of the trees
Right now at my eyes sparkles the last rays of the setting sun
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Myriad thoughts rule my mind...
Some are whims, staunchly entwined
Some are desolate darklings of deep
Window-panes shatter as sun rays peep
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Swinging left swinging right love is on my eyes
As worlds change, hard and strange, truths become lies
Srewed up fights and boozed out nights, a lonely cigarette
Bring me on a morning song, I wish to face my death
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TOO LONELY, SHE SHINES IN THE SKIES' VAST STRETCH
AND VEILS THE DARKNESS WITH HER NOTES OF SECLUSION

AH, LONELY ONE
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Crossing all these darkness
we’ll reach paradise-on earth some day-
where the morning sun awakes.
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Continuous as I plough the field
To reap the golden grains,
I feel that I’m one too- with pesticides and manure
As I try raising an artificial ocean
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The snaps you gave still pinch my dormant conscious
Like my love- long lost
As new doors unravel new faces reminding
the frost and cold of days solemnly passed
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The dazzling light of my father’s pyre
Is more potent than any other
The smoke that rises from my father’s pyre
No dusky fumes can be as bold.
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Loud words rise within queues of decaying corpses…
I lied alone midst city roads- fast asleep… merging with
Reserved comments of disgust-
That a sleepless soul utters:
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I haven’t got the waves so I reach out for the wind in the beach
Smog unfolds- I lose my way midst the dusk in your eyes
Innumerable loopholes introduce a man to a man-
In serene sighs without light
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I love you more like silence- like the silence that runs by and wraps
Memories of cold-blooded pain with tunes beaded with laughter

I love you more
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