My Songs Are Not Sweet! Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

Will you hear my songs
if they speak in hard words?
Will you hear my songs
if they draw out dark pictures?

Will you mind, my friends,
if they don`t borrow fairy feathers?
if they don`t shower you with confetti joy?
And if they shed light on the place
right at the bottom of a lighted lamp?

Will you plug your keen ears
if my songs sing in cacophony?
Music loses to daily tears!
Hearts bleed in blue symphony.

A lullaby has to be melodious.
It puts the eyes to close sleep!
but my lyrics are on loud mode;
they won`t idly lie and just beep!

Will you mind, my friends,
if my music does not sound like a flute?
Will you give your hands; not just big claps?
if the bugle blows and the voice truly calls?

My lyrics gather words from rag pickers!
They shout in the sad thrill of country liquors.
Lame in ragas but solid with naked truth.
Will you mind if the heady smell comes forth?

Will you hear my songs
if they speak in hard words?
Will you hear my songs
if they draw out dark pictures?