Online Poems written by Dipankar Maibam
Like a pawn in chess
I shuffle whenever the company needs
Damn good I may become the Queen
But I can never be the King.
We are sacrificed
When the king needs it
We are sacrificed
When the queen needs it
They care none for us
But they fare not well than us
Does they know how I feel
Does they know how I deal
People say the salary is great
As I drive a merc benz
Does they know what I wish
I wish one day I shall be a King.
Doling out a piece of land,
I let my sister take a piece of me,
Along she took fertile lands,
She also took those lovely rivers.
After years of silence,
Today she asks for more,
After years of war,
Today she asks for peace.
I wish we had peace with us,
But when she hands out peace,
She has a clause in it,
“Kashmir”.
My children know my agony,
but they dread the clause,
I love peace,
But, I love my children more.
I know my children love me,
That’s why they aren’t,
Giving away,
A piece of me again.
If my sis was understanding,
Children would have understood,
The love and passion I have,
For her in my heart.
Challenging the two little openings
The shutters closed.
Defying the strong hinges
The upper part went downward.
Through the side openings
I heard a voice calling my owner.
I didn’t let the voice reach my owner
Till I saw the caller agitated.
When I let my owner get the voice
The shutter opened at a speed I saw never.
Sometime later I found myself feeling heat
I know something is wrong with my owner.
From that evening my owner is boozing
I think he was right then fired.
Oops sorry
I got my owner fired.
I tried not to cry
But eyes would not stay dry.
Like droplets of rain
It went down in pain.
Surrounding me stood my friends
They consoled me with their minds.
White clothed draped her
She lay motionless near.
Crows fled when she went
Even the world stopped I felt.
It wasn’t the world I remembered
I didn’t know where I belonged.
Shattered was my heart
Like a mirror that’s fragile.
Lost souls won’t get out of sleep
But, till that day, I know my eyes will drip.
“Hot” I remarked
“Yes” my friend replied
Looking at the coffee
Does he know,
I was commenting on his wife?
The lady blushed
as her cheeks went pink
I could sense her discomfort
A drop of her sweat from her cheeks
Dropped on my lap
Her blushes got clearer
As she lowered to give me the cup
I send a mouthful of wind to her.
I saw her stop blushes
And glanced at my friend who was
Engrossed in newspaper
As I held the cup
Her legs were touching my leg
With discomfort I curled up on the couch
As she was getting near me closer.
That moment my friend said
“Here’s my adventurous wife”
Heard some droplets of rain on the rooftop
The weather got crazy as I watched through the window
A thought of him flashed my mind
A feeling of romance touched my heart.
Felt his heart drawing me closer
I felt loneliness inside.
This storm is killing me
Sound of lightening is frightening me.
Maybe he would give me comfort
By holding my hand in the rain.
A sip coffee in the rain
That’s what I mean.
He is waiting for me
Media is waiting for me
I have no regrets
This world wishes me to die
He is oiling the rope
To let me die without struggle
With a single strike
He will let me loose
He would cover my head
With the black cloth he has.
I have no regrets
This world wishes me to die
It’s his job I know
But, may be I can bribe him.
What’s the use of bribing him
Some other would come in his place
With a single stroke
He would let me loose
I have no regrets
This world wishes me to die
Hairs crisscrossed her face,
Her eyes were fixed with a gaze.
Nobody knew where she looked,
I thought she was perplexed.
A few hearts here and there,
Burned like a dozens of fire.
Follow the heart’s call, inner mind said,
Stop gazing, my reluctance said.
Was on a transfix by her smell,
A smell that was pungent and unwell.
My canny mind thought of teasing her,
While I tried hard to get out of fear.
As she approached a car,
I heard a voice so rare.
She gestured with her fingers,
I thought her fingers were tender.
She asked for five grands,
The guy told three grands.
When she went inside,
Tears dropped as I cried.
Soon I realized,
I have fallen in love.
To a lady of night,
Arrogant yet so live.
It has been removed from this post as some of my friends didn’t like it.
Into the dense crowd she went in,
my misty eyes followed her.
Like the sky would come down,
tears rolled down my eyes.
As she was lost in the crowd,
I turned my back and wiped my tears.
Feeling of dejection crept inside me
I felt this world could have treated me better.
Heard a loud honk with a thud
I lay looking skywards
Just then from nowhere she came
With her misty eyes caring me.
I smiled looking at her eyes
Coz, I felt she would love me to die.
