Cognizance <br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br />What goodness in romance retained <br />When after in love <br />So much love drained <br />So much emotion wasted <br />For reasons known to none <br />On a fine spring morn <br />Not an epistle but a notice <br />Carrying words of autumn <br />Reached him with no muslin <br /> <br />A tale of two loving birds <br />Coming closer and closer <br />To make a model flower <br />Out of love out of cherub air <br />Alas! to be nowhere <br />And as today's affairs are born <br />Out of blue out of sudden <br />How and when it all happens <br />To all is quite unknown <br />Touch the screen love is born <br />Whether you are in east or west <br />Emotions play its cunning best <br /> <br />It's good to check one's antecedent <br />But where is your time <br />To think it not the least <br />Since you are in love <br />Left, right, rear and front <br />All seem alike and aright <br />And in no time you are seen <br />Tying the knot <br />And in no time you are seen <br />Walking along a quiet street alone <br />When eyes meet eyes <br />You look down and down into abyss <br />Where the sun imperceptibly smiles <br /> <br />And I looked at the silence, <br />Got answer without hurting your eyes <br />And the following day <br />When the world was aflush with sunbeams <br />You came with sunset <br />A notice imprinted in dark inks <br />Impeaching you to be a fool <br />Living in a fool's paradise <br />Guilty of stirring love's molecules <br />The love we loved was not a love at all <br />Hence separation appealed <br />An ash without fire is a riddle <br />And I longed to know the reasons <br />And he was looking into the sky <br />Into the far sky with blank eyes………….<br /><br />DEEPAK KUMAR PATTANAYAK<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cognizance-2/
