Protocols Poem by Vikram Seth

Protocols

Rating: 3.7


What can I say to you? How can I retract
All that that fool my voice has spoken -
Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked,
The protocols of friendship broken?
I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn
Past the still house where you lie sleeping.
May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn
And hold you in its warmth and keeping.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Onida 30 October 2006

A great poem! ! well done

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Jasbir Chatterjee 03 August 2015

everything keeps changing; even relationships must change and survive through the test of time and breakdown of protocols.

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Ramesh T A 03 August 2015

Though the protocol of friendship is broken down, yet, the process of reconciliation has been made at the end!

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Chitralekha Chetia 29 August 2008

What can I say to this? I couldn't retract from what I had done. What came naturally undone was the faith.

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Sathyanarayana M V S 17 June 2008

At last having read your poems....Sir...I am really blessed...I can see the thoroughfare

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Mohan Parmeswaran 19 July 2007

I am new to Vikram poems, very catchy and fascinating, indeed!

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth

Kolkata / India
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