Jugal Bandi 5 -Poetry-Mustaque Ahmedঃ Soham Sanyal

    JUGAL BANDI No. #5 

Written By: Mustaque Ahmed

Painting By: Soham Sanyal

The Last Train

Occasions are to be destroyed,

Expectations are to be concealed,

'To be loved' is to be killed,

Solitude is to be filled -

With doubt and dyed.

None to provide that depth of yours,

That Innocence of yours,

That intimacy of yours.

So, this journey ends with you,

Not with your memories.

Oscillating between mind and heart,

Which should be given the priority -

Career or the heart's craving ???

Till today, the last train 

Brings the lamentation for the not chosen.

With the blow of the whistle

That golden opportunity gone.

And the heartless decision

Provides the mental ache of hell.

                                                                        Illustration: Firoz Akhtar and Swarup Chakraborty

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