Sonnet by poet : Susnata Bandyopadhaya From:: Kolkata, India
O dearest one, thou hast betrayed the earth—
Its sacred hue once blooming in thine eyes;
Thy soul, once vast as heaven’s primal birth,
Now drinks from shallow wells where passion dies.
Thy grace once stirred the boundless cosmic fire,
Yet now thou drown’st in dark, unending night;
Forgot the hymn of pure and high desire,
Where love was light, and silence bore its sight.
Still rise the storms with clouds of dusky rain,
To touch thy form with longing’s silver flame;
While truth awaits in nature’s pure domain,
To crown thy soul, and cleanse thy mortal shame.
O child of dust—within true beauty bide,
Let nature’s truth and thine forever coincide.
