O Vagabond Cloud! <br /> <br />Why such a dream so futile? <br />That time and again, may I sigh <br />For a sweet home always <br />Inside blue sky! <br /> <br />May you not know? <br />That home will one day <br />perish for sure, will be <br />Forlorn! forsaken! <br />Ah! will it not be, at all? <br /> <br /> <br />May that unkind sun <br />Usurp you in intense burst <br />Monsoon may in pitiful mourn <br />Vigor a downpour in full thrust <br /> <br />One day neither you nor I will be here <br />Yet breaks a dawn after prolonged Nigh <br />Cloud comes one after another <br />Echoes distant far may I hear <br />River breaks in one bank, gains in another <br />Like a heart forever! <br /> <br />May I not love <br />Just to be like you inside this net <br />Magical so webs <br />This bewitching Maya so beguiles! <br /> <br />Now so much in love with this moss! <br />Gathers around the stone so benign <br />Sleeping like a child unconscious <br />This island so lonely <br />That mourns inside careful treasure <br />So deceitful, this Maya's desire! <br /> <br />O Cloud so dear! <br />Hear! O hear! <br />Let only be for a moment <br />Inside you this glorious paint <br />In mind let it vibrate forever <br />Dreams that tide inside my heart <br />That touch so soft around the sands! <br />Let it remain inside forever <br />This pensive heart! <br />May trail this ocean <br />And insensitive time may often ignite that flame <br />That sweet memory bygone! <br />Let it may <br />Now be swayed away <br />Tell me who at all may drift away! <br />Who may depart at all! <br />Only we make a mistake <br />Everyone so remains <br />Only we misunderstand! <br /> <br />Shamik Bose 17th June 2010 Calcutta<br /><br />Shamik Bose<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/vagabond-cloud/
