English Poem / HUMMING A SONG---PENNING A FEW LINES / by Durba Mitra

5.30 am

Mind woke up

Not yet my eyes

Humming a few

Gazals in my cerebrum.

Rolled onto my belly

Picked a pen

Opened the tab

A silly smile on lips

Written memories of you.

Got up and got ready

Got a daylong workshop

Thinking about

Meeting you in evening

Narrating my writing.

During the workshop

Phone kept on beeping

Your photo flashing

Cardiac arrest and car overturn

At 2.30 am.

Stopping my lecture

Came out of the hall

You had left us

At 6 am.

Post mortem is going on.

I drove down

Locked the car

Opened the gate

Bolero car was missing

I fled away.

5 months’ flashback

You had come to me

Rain drenched and hungry

I shooed you away.

My mood was to be alone.

You had gone away

Head down and eyes forlorn.

Called me later,

“You would never see me.”

I replied, “Would not require!”

You had kept your word

I could never disclose

That last chance to save you

You had stopped medication?

I will never know !