Rabindra Sarovar
At Rabindra Sarovar You wonder How is it, That this vast lake Has no sunset birds? This expansive lake - With lily pads, lotus ponds - Yet no flock at dusk Perhaps they need no closure But I don’t voice my words The sunset came and went Like ourselves - Blazing only to dim, Yet, those missing silhouettes Stirred your inner restlessness In the dying yellow Of the skies You have given up When I smile And point up to the last of rays And you stare Eyes wide open In disbelief Not one, but three Large ‘V’s of cormorants fly All at once One above the other. Unlike me, my city succeeds As we silent fade In the last rays of a sunset sky…