You And Me… Poem by kunjubi varghese

I kept a thousand words in my heart to tell you,

About the love I conserved, in the core of my heart.

You never knew the excruciating pain, I carry inside.

In your resentment, you were keeping away.


Though chanting your name, keeping your image

Day and night, I kept all longings discreetly, in my mind.

Without telling you, my hankering of love, to you...


Inside me, the passions swelled as the waves of the ocean;

And your mind, the sands on the shore craving to

Clasp it to your bosom, grapple, and own it for ever.

We heard the eternal emotions surging, in the baying

Of the sea, from a distance, as the echo of our desires,

I don’t know what I should call this sweetest of emotions

Lending a tender softness, and maudlin aches clinging in me.

Call it love, or mercy of the Providence, allowing me

To row my boat of life, without drowning in the fathoms

Of betrayal, naturally assimilated in our values, now.


I turned into a cloud, primed to burst out the rain

Awaiting the destiny, to shower a little compassion...

And you the earth, yearning for a droplet of that rain

Bearing the seeds of a great forest, writhing inside you…