Ode To Kishore Kumar Poem by Shamik Kumar Bose

Kishore da,

As I grew up, there has not been a single day when your song did not
give me a pure delight. It did not happen with anything. Things
change. Tastes change. My Favourite topic also changes. With the
sweep of time, the mind also changes. Against the kaleidoscope of
life that has its own moods, own colours, sometime bright, another
time grim and dull, your songs have an answer to everything, your
moods swing with them and you only know, with a talent so rare and a
voice so melodious, that 'our sweetest songs are those that tell our
saddest thoughts'.

Twenty two years ago you took a journey to an immortal path. I remember you. Listening to your songs. At FM.

Who dares say
That you have left us
Tears that come in joy
Do not lie! Do not lie.

Pray your soul rests in peace. You have given the world so much. What
I can give you? You know, a silent devotion, a purest respect, an
ananda-ghono bhalobasa.

Mana janab me pukara nehin
Kya mera sath bhi gaoara nahin

copyright: shamik bose 2009