When I found You

In the Moonsoons of '11
When our Campus brimmed with water
I was brimming too
'Cause I had finally found You.

In the endless evenings and mornings
When we Stormed over Brand
When the moments we parted were few
Was when I had found You

When hundreds were rocking the dance floor
And for a second I was unsteady
There was grip on my hand so true
I knew I had found You

When we explored together, the Ajanta Caves
If you remember, we made a Promise
From a point where we had a  beautiful view
That was when I had found You!

In the Raft on the Amazon
When our doggies and we survived on fish
To stay warm, the options were few
And that us when I have found You!

Sitting with the Harmonium

The girl in a frock
Was staring out of the window...
Wishing she didn't have to sit there
With the harmonium
Singing Rabindrasangeet...

The words meant nothing to her,
The tune meant nothing.
Then why was she sitting there...
With the harmonium
Singing Rabindrasangeet?

Because all good Bengali girls
Obey their parents
And obey their Gurus... and so the girl sat there
With the harmonium
Singing Rabindrasangeet.

Today after a decade
On a blank Saturday afternoon
Why does she hum those forgotten melodies?
Words that had meant nothing to her
Surs that had never echoed in her heart?

Keteche Akela Birohero Bela..
Aakasho Kushumo Choyone...
Sob potho eshe mile gelo seshe...
Tomaro dukhani nayane, nayane,nayane...
Words that had meant nothing to her
Surs that had never echoed in her heart...

In the blankness and the emptiness
(Who knows if it's of the day or the mind?)
When one is not so full of one's own fullness
Random words and gestures make sense;
Words that had meant nothing to her
Surs that had never echoed in her heart...

And so this is how a Bong, who has lost half of her Bongness ends up savouring the ultimate romanticism of a soulful Tagore song on a Saturday afternoon

For all the (unlucky) non Bongs, the 4 sentences mean that for a long time I have been losing myself in the skies in this lonely afternoon separated from my lover. However, I have just realized that I have been seeking trough so many paths only to arrive at his/her eyes.