Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

It only seems like yesterday That a small town guy moved to a new town with parents In search of a life He learnt new languages, aspired for new dreams and dreamt a new life The dream has come true Today he has all that he desired for then and a bit more. The more is somewhat pleasant and a lot unpleasant The more has brought him problems he never dreamt of while dreaming his dreams Today the small boy is a success story in his own right He has gazes sizing him when he passes the road on two legs or car But he isn't happy The insecurities of yesterday have bloomed to be the Judas tree Tempting to expose and ruin everything in moments Today life is so loveless Love is a mirage, a shadow that mocks him through day and night Provoking him to venture forbidden alleys Only to be left more hungry, more thirsty and more desperate Sometimes he wonders if there is anything called love or is it just lust dripping from everywhere? He loves hard and yet hardly is rewarded wit

When I'm with you, I feel I'm in a time machine I feel I am transported back to the times when Gods lived on Earth and everything around us was pure Bliss Yes, that is what I feel with you, pure Bliss I feel the time has stopped and I'm in an ocean of eternity, constantly floating up and down with the water cleansing my soul With you I feel that I connect with the everflowing surges of happiness that touches my heart and I feel a sense of ecstacy I never felt before With you, I feel so light that I can imagine myself floating in the sky with the birds happily meditating in the sky connected to the creator With you, I realise the power of yin and yang, the coming together of two parts to make one whole. I start believing that there are soul mates and we are a pair too A pair forged at a time when the world began and will continue till the world lasts When we kiss, I feel like the butterflies tasting the sweetest nectar on Earth. Holding you makes me feel my hands a