If somebody should love a curtain <br />We can do nothing but to sustain <br />You must keep your thoughts confined <br />Or you do not prove of civilized kind. <br />The curtain does not allow me <br />To open my words to thee. <br /> <br />We are rational human beings <br />Can never go for emotional things <br />Even if we love we must hide <br />Each other’s mind we can’t decide. <br />We are snails living inside a shell <br />So that none could see, we fear to tell <br />The secret truth for our ego <br />Will feel hurt if the other says, “No”! <br /> <br />You think the other might call it a dark desire <br />And your long nurtured image gets into fire <br />All the words we utter are fake <br />Truth can’t be told for image’s sake. <br />You never declare your passions for you are not so bold <br />For the sense of honour the tongue must be kept on hold. <br />Our hearts are inside our skulls <br />Saying the truth might make every one repulse. <br /> <br />We can perhaps never bridge this gap <br />We’re the victims of our civilized trap <br />This is a civilized curtain we must keep <br />Even if we do nothing but barrenness reap.<br /><br />Prateep Sengupta<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/civilized-curtain/
