YES, I WILL LEARN THE ART TO FALSELY PLEASE YOU

YES, I WILL LEARN THE ART TO FALSELY PLEASE YOU

Of course, my dear and dazzling sweet heart

I will, by and by, for your joy, learn the rampant art,

Fancies  about your well-being I will unwillingly abandon

While smiling before you, I will undermine your concern.

In truth, O the very part of my hollow life, essential

I will gradually gain mastery in a process steady and gradual

To hide my nagging soreness due to your ignorant wounds

Under  the wraps of sham croons I will suppress my sad sounds.

Oh! Indeed, the adorned damsel on my gentle heart-throne

With the rolling of time I will be matured enough and grown

To belittle your trivial but indispensably busy world

I will little by little nod with you “ Pebble resembles emerald!”

Thou art, and wilt be the same as thou wert once upon a time

Albeit, I will learn the art to term “a blank verse a sweet rhyme!”

* dazzling - shining

* by and by - in a short time

* rampant – widespread/ wild

* fancies – thoughts/imaginations

* unwillingly – without will or interest

* abandon –give up

* undermine – weaken/neglect

* hollow – empty/unimportant

* nagging – irritating

* soreness – pain

* ignorant wounds -  wounds developed without your knowledge

* sham - artificial

* croons - songs

* suppress - hold back/hide

* sad sounds – Painful feelings

* adorned – decorated/ ornamented

* damsel – a beautiful lady

* belittle - put down/not pay emphasis on

* trivial – unimportant

* indispensably – necessarily/that which has been a necessary part of life

* little by little – gradually

* nod with you – agree with you

* pebble resembles emerald – ordinary roadside stone appears as costly bright green stone

* thou art, and wilt be – your are and will remain

* thou wert – you were

* albeit – although

* a blank verse a sweet rhyme – This sentence is an irony. A poem without any rhyme scheme can not be sung sweetly. Here, the poet is determined to do the impossible to please his beloved.

©Shankar D Mishra 09.06.2017

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