Saturday, January 7, 2023

A Futile Afternoon

 

A Futile Afternoon

 I M R U L  K A Y E S


The afternoon was fine

And the mind was fair,

The sky was deep blue

Scattered clouds remain there.

I have an appointment with her.

There’ll be a meeting, a sitting

And the afternoon will be passing over.

 

For a fragile lame excuse

She didn’t come.

My waiting for her

And the arrangement for the afternoon proved futile.

There was no meeting, no sitting,

And no chance to tell her that

I need her more than anything in the world’.

 

 

14 September 2010

Khulna 


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