Begone Oh Twilight…

 Oh twilight!
 Why have you decided 
 To prolong your display today?
 Why do you want to tempt the world 
 With your hues today?
 Can’t you just disappear and 
 Let the night take over?
 Your hues today are in any case,
 Not brighter than the hues I wear this evening;
 The pink of my lips
 The red of the vermillion of my hair’s parting
 The hues of my golden bangles
 The orange in the colour of my dress
 Are far superior to your hues this evening.
  
 A sense of elation has captured my heart
 Happiness that I cannot keep bound.
 Can’t you see love in my hues this evening?
  
 Yet you choose to linger at the horizon.
 I beseech you 
 to dissolve in the darkness of the night
 At the earliest.
 My heart is mad with longing.
 For sprouting of tomorrow’s dawn,
 When riding on these steel rails
 My beloved,
 To me he will come! 

Copyright @ Goutam Dutta

What do you see # 63 – January 4, 21