I Have Known That Silhouette For An Eternity

I have known that silhouette for an eternity

Through the rainy roads and dazzling summers

Through never ending nights to unbearable days

I have known him forever.

My body still smells like the first bloom of dolonchapa

That I had stolen from his garden one rainy afternoon

My mind still keeps framed

All the times of lonely ecstasy, I weaved around him

Facing the raging sea, his silhouette stands

I let my body drift slowly towards him

While my mind races back to my past

To the days when I saw him last

His dark brooding eyes, his magnificent smile

My eager heart full of hopes

His poetry, his guitar

My silent love from far

Every move he would make, memorized by me

My hopeful desires brewing within

A prisoner of his dreams  

Yearning to be closer to his soul

Floating back to present, ‘Souvik’ I call softly

Startled he turns around to face me

His eyes travel towards recognition

As he remembers the girl he once knew

‘Avirupa’ He smiles, ‘Is that really you?’

‘You remember me?’ I whisper at the impossibility

He smiles, ‘How can I forget?’

Do I trace in his voice a hint of regret?

‘Baba’ A happy voice calls from a distance

‘My daughter’ he proudly adds

I realise now is not the time

I have to wait for the sublime

The ‘I love you’ had remained unsaid, fifteen years ago

The ‘I love you’ remained unsaid even today

How many years of love to live?

How many years I have to wait?

I loved him once, I loved him still

I walk away from him

As the sounds of waves let the airs fill

With an unknown song of agony

I smile to myself

Souvik I shall wait for you,

My love,

Always through eternity.