A Smile on two Broken Lips

Dr Sudhansu Dash

That day in an unbecoming morning

You told me

You will be broken

If left half way

I kept you carefully in me

With a fear

Least you will be broken

I could not understand you then

You broke all my innocent present

Sometimes you come in a stormy night

Or in a merciless sun

In my aloneness.

I have tried in so many ways

To misunderstand your presence

But failed

Now everywhere there is lighted darkness

You cannot hide in me anywhere

Still my unattached waiting for your

Egoless smile

Hanging in your broken lips