Already a farewell song ? Dear friend, <br />will you dry the stream, <br />and raise pale sandbars, <br />even before the full floods of monsoon ? <br />Will the current of hopes and questions <br />disappear into anaemic indifference, <br />leaving only memory as its silent and grey effect ?? <br /> <br />Well this sadness suits you not. There is music <br />in your heart and senses, <br />it is your orchestra that plays in this world-wide gathering, <br />it lights a restless flame of joy in this festival of hope; <br />variations of pain, harmonies of death <br />are a part of this song of life - <br /> <br />Is it you who admits defeat! You, <br />intense, tireless and hard-working, <br />with a scientist's focussed passion, <br />a lover embracing the world - <br />is it you who sits without hope, silent and tired, <br />racked with hate and self-destructive indifference <br />at Koutilya's fake devious doctrines ?? <br /> <br />Already a farewell song ? Dear friend, <br />turn your face, look, raise your eyes, <br />are there dead sandbars rising in the delta ? <br />Yet see the stream rush, compulsive, vocal and strong, <br />why do you forget the truth of that source - <br /> <br />That rushes fast and strong through stones in the mountain, <br />that flows radiant and wide through green sunlit plains, <br />the sun turning it to a colour of gold, <br />and it erodes land as it goes, <br />forever hearing, far-away but unmistakable, <br />the call of a blue blue sea.<br /><br />Bishnu Dey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/already-a-farewell-song/
