Dear Nirmali: Chinmoy Gogoi

Thank you @aamisfilm for inspiring the contents of this poem. Thank you to @drlimadas ,@ojaantrik_jajabor and the entire Aamis team for giving a film I will never forget and directly inspiring my pen today.
The background picture has been taken from the poster of this jewel of a movie.
This post is well past the due date, but like they say, better late than never. So here goes.
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DEAR NIRMALI...
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Yes, you had that mark of union,
Which bound you to some other.
He was oft absent, when
You needed his attention.
And in this kind of situation,
Its understandable
Of making contacts with someone else
Someone
Whom your societal ties dictates
Should be kept away.
Yet it bloomed, somewhere
In your heart and soul.
And without a medium to spread its fragrance
It made itself heard through the dinner dates over meat.
Understandable it is,
Someone was giving your heart the attention
It used to cry for.
And your love found expression,
Through food
Through meat
Through being আমিষ৷
But sometimes
But almost often
Love isn’t possible.
It’s beautiful face turns dark and ugly
As what happened when you embarked,
On the journey to explore a forbidden food.
Down goes the people then
Down they fall into a pit
Down into the darkness
From where theres no light
From where theres no climbing out.
But when you saw no future ahead of you,
You let it bloom,
The flower which yearned to burst open
And spread the fragrance of joy.
Finally could bloom out in the world.
That is the changing face of love,
Beauty to Grotesque;
Light to Dark;
Angel to Devil.


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