To some unmet lover

To some unmet lover

O say, how shall I forget the music of your heart,
And how then shall I remain forever far apart
From you? Why do you vanish in the blink of an eye
Leaving behind only the fluid essence of your sigh?
 

Why does my restless body crave and long for your touch,
When your serene beauty my humbled inner eyes watch?
Why do my lips fumble, while uttering your name,
And my heart perceives you as its own, precious gem?

Is this love? Is this the longing desire of the soul,
That remains my ultimate bliss, my unseen goal?
Or is this some strangeness, some feeling new,
That wants to thus unite me and you?

Will you not heed the silent language of my eyes,
Ignoring cruelly, the unheard agony in my cries?
Or will you then come, and heed my plea,
And thus stay forever, eternally joyous with me?

Say, O unseen lover, veiled by time's uncertain mist,
Will you really come, from some land west or east?
Or will you vanish into void, the forgotten abyss
Like fallen, ignored leaves, like long-lost memories?

Come, life me from this despair and this dread,
Erasing the unsung pain in my life unsaid,
Come, to liberate alike, my mind and my heart,
Thus rejuvenating me, from this dead life to rebirth.

- Anirban Chatterjee