TATHAGATA BANERJEE

[M.A. (English), The Bhawanipur Education Society College, CU]

Farewell… Almost

I will be awake until the midnight sleeps, doing nothing…
I’ll be reading the last words of a lost love letter…
I’ll be busy thinking of the shameless idiotic tendencies of mine…
In front of you…

I’ll cling on to the last words of your text messages…
The warmth of the lacklustre way the goodbyes had been said
I’ll circle back to the centre of the ride when we
Cursed each other with hatred most…
I’ll love, dear, until we shatter us into pieces little…
I’ll have everything that this time has to offer
To you and me…
And then, will I say farewell.