Poetry of Dr. Shankar D Mishra: WHEN YOUR BLACK-BERRY HAIR TURNS WHITE!

Thursday 7 September 2017

When your silky, black-berry hair turns jute-like white

When your smooth, buttery skin is not so temptingly tight

When your fake, lustful drones are not at your seeking, dim sight

I will still be around you to light your dark path as a Polestar bright!

When the radiant noon of your youth is at the threshhold of twillight

When the silvery sheen of your soft smile is fallen as a wind blown kite

When the buoyant bloom of your bewitching beauty miserably drops frayed

I will still be around you in your life’s desolate valley along with you to tread!

When your rampant present popularity is almost a forgotten tale of the past

When your impressive vigour is almost spent, vivacity can’t any longer last

When your avid, staunch and mad devotees lose their fervour and alacrity

I will still be around you to hug you with the same warmth, inensity and pity!

Yes, the bouquet of my sincere love will still ceaselessly smell then the same

For, I love not your black hair but your soul, the ever unsoil’d and shining Gem!

GLOSSARY:

* sheen – shine

* buoyant – cheerful

* bewitching – charming

* frayed – worn/faded

* desolate – deserted/ isolated

* rampant – widespread

* vivacity – liveliness

* any longer last – continue any longer

* avid – passionate

* staunch – firm, constant, zealous

* fervour – strong feeling

* alacrity – enthusiasm

* bouquet – a bunch of flowers

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