Something is amiss today
Something is not quite right
There is something on your mind
Weighing with all its might

Why are your lips so sealed
While your eyes are drowning with words
Why are your steps halting
While your gaze is determinedly stark

Why do I get the feeling
That you are talking to yourself
Rehearsing ever so silently
Without being heard or felt

Why do I get the premonition
That you are sailing the doldrums
Waiting for the storm to break
Beyond the sea of calm

Why is the twilight so unsteady
With its looming shadow of darkness
Perhaps arriving accompanied
With a raging tornado in harness

Subir Chakraborty / 12th July 2018