These Days.... Poem by Mayur Varshne

Bonjour belle femme!

My presence must infuriate you,

I know, I am your bete noire;

but, I beg you to stay,

I have something to say.



Thesedays,

a strange passion has found its way;

it grows in strength, every now and then;

it rebels against my composure, again and again!

My composure, which suffers in silence,

finally wants to give away;

I must say

all that I have to say!



Thesedays,

you have occupied the territory of my mind;

I think of only you, all the day.





The depth of your sedate eyes

intoxicates me into brief moments of profound joy

which I had never thought could ever exist;

Moments of togetherness,

moments of harmony,

moments of sheer bliss!

On recovering my sense of reality,

I am left wondering,

if a mere glimpse of theirs fills me with such glee

as if I was a little boy with his cherised toy,

with what boundless joys,

such moments await me!





The thoroughness of your tough spirit

insults the careless, reckless man in me!

But I soon find it to be bewitching!

I realise,

to my utter surprise,

you ought to be my muse,

you ought to be with me!





Such a strong, virtuous core,

but,

with all the prettiness and delicacy to the fore!

The arrogant man in me had never known

a woman to be worth a vast treasure!

The spartan in me, too, discovers

a woman to be the strongest allure!





Beyond the dark clouds of gloom,

I see the light of happiness again;

all the pain feels tolerable again;

After years, I feel love again!

After ages, the brute knows

what it is to be a human again!





My heart beats like never before;

I feel a passion so pure,

my soul rightly believes,

you are to stay in my heart

for the longest tenure.



You dare not

call me a perverted liar today!

I say,

you are the love of my life!

You will remain with my soul

for the rest of my life,

each and every day.

It happens once in a blue moon,

on the rarest day,

when a diehard cynic

empathises with the love crazed fools,

and,

yearns to follow the love crazed fools' ways,

in the near future,

some very fine day!