The best antique flower-vase

Shukdeb Mazumder

I was suddenly roused by the sound

of the door-bell

from the bed of hell

of the absence of yours- ill spellbound.

When I opened the door without any roar

you, as if intending

to give me a flower spreading

heavenly beauty, came into my room poor.

All of a sudden, the room became rich

in the middle of which-

Gless- you turned to a flower-vase-

an eighteenth-century antique art-piece!

You are the best antique of my life museum,

without you I am really a reedless harmonium.

[Gless : The short form of "God bless"]

© Dr. Shukdeb Chandra Mazumder

17-10-2022