Pieces of my
Soul.......
Fragments of my Mind.......
For Dreamgirl
I dedicate this page and most of my earlier poems to Meenu, my cyber friend, and also the Dream Vendor, who discovered the fountain within me, as she discovered similar fountains in others whom she met in cyber space.
Meenu (Dreamgirl) literally popped into my life through ICQ around this time last year. And before I got to know her, she was gone... And like a Forlorn Sphinx, I waited for her return because I felt my soul was tied to hers with Gossamer Threads... I did not know then that she had transcended cyber space and was living among the stars, where she rightfully belongs.
You see, Meenu had been suffering for two decades from a rare kidney disease for which there was no cure. Though she knew that the Reaper would come knocking at her door, He had not given her an appointment... So she spent her time meeting people in cyber space... befriending them, listening to their sorrow, instilling hope and, as in my case, discovering a fountain of poetry that even I did not know existed.
I never met Meenu. A few days after we decided that we should finally meet, she found peace at last.... I was disappointed that I did not get to see her in person, and for a while I even felt cheated...but perhaps it was all for the best. I'm happy she found escape from her constant pain. My poem, I Looked for You, will tell you that she is still here... still my friend... and lives in the recesses of my soul and within my creative mind...
Siddharth Sanyal
20th May 2000
WILL I BE THERE
When the flowers of hopeful morn
Turn to dust at memory’s dusk
Will my image on the rippled pond
Still smell like fading musk
Will the fragrance that I leave behind
Like the soft breeze through wooded pines
Disappear like the sun at night
Along with my few rhyming lines
Would children ever learn from them?
Will they be able to make any sense?
Of the few words that I leave behind
In the twilight, like incense
I've put up 54 poems for you to read... I hope you will find the time to read them and let me have your opinion on them... And please don't forget to sign my Guest Book!
This phase is over. I am up to my eyeballs in poetry... Time to move on to something new... Perhaps it's time to write short stories! Well, if I do manage to get around to doing that... I'll be putting them up right here... So, do come back for a visit every now and then...
Siddharth
