Rabindra Sarovar

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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…

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