English Literature – Poetry ☆ Quietly… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

Hemant Bawankar

(This poem has been cited from my book “The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)

☆ Quietly… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

My tears have dried

and eyes are stoned now

Oh God!

Don’t pass me

through any such incident ever

for sure

let me cry quietly.

We journeyed a long way

with each other

at this stage of life.

Oh God!

It would be difficult to walk alone.

If there is a call to walk alone,

let me sleep quietly.

Every father says

when you will become a father

you will understand.

It continued

from generation to generation.

If you will say something else

tell me quietly.

Father’s shelter

seems to be like forgotten memories.

Today,

under the shelter of a dry  tree

I feel that if the wind reaches again

to my father,

enclose me quietly.

Life is flying

like a book of time

when the wind stops

on  the last page,

let me sleep quietly.

It is really difficult to connect

old ancestral broken relationship

like a delicate thread.

Break the whole myth today

like Kabir’s couplets quietly.

Every moment of life

is extremely beautiful

and equally romantic is

the philosophy of life.

Moment that has been passed,

will never return.

If you could live

that moment again,

tell me quietly.

© Hemant Bawankar