English Literature – Poetry ☆ Can We Be Strangers Again? ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Can We Be Strangers Again? ~”.  We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) and his artwork.) 

~ Can We Be Strangers Again? ~ 

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At first

there was only a spark

unburdened by yesterday

with no looming shadows

of the past…

Then we drew closer

wrapped in an unspoken intimacy

Expectations arrived

as though ordained by destiny

They failed

And in their wake

discords quietly

bloomed between us

Until silence

became

the language

of our conversations

The world

with its silent certainty

stole the wild joy

We believed

love would preserve

but in vain…

Then came

the quiet revelation

Perhaps

remaining strangers

is a rare blessing

For strangers are free

to dream

without disillusion

to admire

without expectation

and to preserve forever

the euphoria

that familiarity

so often steals…!

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM