EXILE IN THE PARADISE
A Poem by Jay Basu
the wind is aromatic with roses in bloom
the summer is high and windy in the sky
stars are shy behind the clouded chiffon
come rains with storms heaving up the sea
with summer vagaries gone and the thrush
leaves the leafy perch singing a sigh of bye
rose petals droop weighed with the raindrops
autumn is afloat in the floating flakes of cloud
blossoms fade and die, their perfume thinned
you loved me once in the breezy summer
with the shine of the roses on your eyes
maybe you never loved me though
by the fallacy of pathos for birds and blossoms
summer breeze and the bluish blinks of stars
shy behind the chiffon veil of cloud
I believed so and lived ever after
a happy exile in the paradiso.
