I've searched for you everywhere-
Across the sky when today the day arose,
In the grassland afar, visible from my window,
In the sent of a wild rose,
In the depth of the footprints of an ant,
In the words of a poem that didn't rhyme,
In the faint song of some windchime,
Did I find you?
I've searched you in those eyes,
In my heart and behind that smile,
Between the distance that remains, which I dislike,
Atop my tear wetted pillows, love in disguise,
In the silence and the absence of the night,
Beyond the presence and the ignorance of daylight,
Past the words meant, yet left untold
Like a marked page left forgotten to unfold,
Did I find you?
Alas! I found but misery,
Grief decorating itself, repeating history.
I cried when I saw them- those scars,
On their faces and in their hearts,
Which were someday fresh wounds-
So deeply slashed that the red won't stop,
So warm that it would burn a whole lot...
With some aid the cuts were tied,
Did less pain that confide?
Where were you then, why did you shy?
Tell me Joy.
Tell me, why?
~ Kripa Sarkar
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