This Moment
There was nothing in my life but this moment; why was my heart burnt so and why did it beat so wildly beneath my breast, why did not I keep my tears back?
When his flute played with new sound, full of love, resonant and brought a new element of life, floated to meet with me.
And I was crying so impatiently, when his flute did play the sound that dwelt on the hillside at the top of high rock or passed out of the door in the garden or off in the fields.
I knew, I knew it was like the splashing of the river that ran down below, where the little wave struck, barely audibly, their pebbles was tinkling, and liable to be sharp ringing into its own heart; as it was whispering in the form of love.
When a faint, a hesitant note was trembling in the air, I would remember the song or the merriment, the dreaminess of the melodies in my arid heart that had pursued me to visit him again and again.
Where he stretched out his hand and the last note died away, when my beggarly heart sparkled to touch him at even the slightest ring of distance.
„Oh “ how indeed! could I tell that I was still waiting for him, even at the day of my last journey.
Biography: Sankar Kumar Ghosh
Sankar Kumar Ghosh is an Indian poet, social worker and a commentator on different social, economic and political issues. He was born on 2nd August, 1952. He is retired teacher of language faculty. Sankar did his graduation and masters from University of Calcutta. He regularly writes articles, poems, short stories in different magazines. He was the chief editor and secretory of “Association for Child Care and Right”. In his student life he participated in different socio-political movements. Above all he has a deep and keen interest in life, nature and divinity. He is awarded with many national and international awards for his writing.
email: sankarkumarghosh1952@gmail.com