# Vagabond Cloud Poem by Shamik Kumar Bose

O Vagabond Cloud!

Why such a dream so futile?
That time and again, may I sigh
For a sweet home always
Inside blue sky!

May you not know?
That home will one day
perish for sure, will be
Forlorn! forsaken!
Ah! will it not be, at all?


May that unkind sun
Usurp you in intense burst
Monsoon may in pitiful mourn
Vigor a downpour in full thrust

One day neither you nor I will be here
Yet breaks a dawn after prolonged Nigh
Cloud comes one after another
Echoes distant far may I hear
River breaks in one bank, gains in another
Like a heart forever!

May I not love
Just to be like you inside this net
Magical so webs
This bewitching Maya so beguiles!

Now so much in love with this moss!
Gathers around the stone so benign
Sleeping like a child unconscious
This island so lonely
That mourns inside careful treasure
So deceitful, this Maya's desire!

O Cloud so dear!
Hear! O hear!
Let only be for a moment
Inside you this glorious paint
In mind let it vibrate forever
Dreams that tide inside my heart
That touch so soft around the sands!
Let it remain inside forever
This pensive heart!
May trail this ocean
And insensitive time may often ignite that flame
That sweet memory bygone!
Let it may
Now be swayed away
Tell me who at all may drift away!
Who may depart at all!
Only we make a mistake
Everyone so remains
Only we misunderstand!

Shamik Bose 17th June 2010 Calcutta