Blue is my corner

Blue is my corner,
Gray are my thoughts,
While, a red rose blooms somewhere,
This love quietly rots.

On the green green grass,
The rain falls softly,
While, my black hopeless heart
Aches on, as unceasingly.

On golden sundrops,
Floats white fluffy hopes,
While, buried in the dark blue corner,
My eyes still foolishly gropes.

Come red, come green and white,
Come golden, come everything bright
Take over, down and through,
My dark dark soul and mind,
Battered for so long, black and blue.
© 2009 Rituparna Das

A dreamless song

I have come to know
Once
Sailing high on ocean waves
You had touched the blue horizon

I have come to know
Once
Down the sand and salt shores
You had walked a long long way

I have never been drenched
I have never fluttered in the sky
My eyes have never gazed on seagulls
Soaring high
With wings spread wide

When you leave again
For a dip in the sea
Take me along
Tell me you will
Take me far
You would, won't you?

I have come to know
You, you and you
Got together
The other day
A few unsolved puzzles
Some unsaid words
Got resolved
Having raised
Their stubborn heads

I don't know
Why I live a life
In the fast fast lanes
Just for one, just myself
Lonely
Without love
Peace eludes
Where do I search for it
Tell me where to

I have come to know
You still have a dream
Your pen still spews tales
Your song is unrestrained
You still stop to think
Who dies, who lives
Your love still blossoms
In a rose

So I have come to beg
My hands outstretched
My eyes thirsty
Carrying a faithless heart
In the deep dark hollowness
Of my sleep
I try
But cannot dream

My empty eyes
My sleepless nights
Long for one.
Tell me you will
Give me a dream
You would, won't you?
© 2009 Rituparna Das

Log bhool jate hai,
Aisehi,
Ekdin achanak.

Mein kaun si duniya ki hun?
© 2009 Rituparna Das

A question

People forget,
Just like that,
One fine day.

Which species
Do I belong to?
© 2009 Rituparna Das

Don't change,
Not so much,
That when you call me,
My name sounds
Like that of a stranger's.
© 2009 Rituparna Das

Zindagi badi tezee se to ja rahi thi,
Bas ek madmast shaam,
Bhul se dohraye gaye kuch purani baatein,
Kadam phir ladkhadane kyoun lage?
© 2009 Rituparna Das

Itna bhi to na badlo,
Ki tumhare zubaan se nikla hua mera naam,
Kuch ajnabee sa lagne lage.
© 2009 Rituparna Das