HUBBY'S LAMENT

I’m no longer what you thought I’d be

The first time that we met beside the sea

Your eyes shone in love-blind glee

You wanted to spend your life with me

Now you’ve seen my rotten core

So you no longer have love in store

When I talk you think I’m a bore

Get irritated when I ask for more

But tell me have you remained unchanged?

Am I to blame for us being estranged?

To give you a life that was so arranged

Yet now you feel I’m the one deranged!

Where’s the girl who clung to me?

Called every uttered word poetry

Claimed that she could love me only

Now her infidelity for all to see

I’ve grown a paunch and lost my hair

But my love for you is still there

It still hangs in the silent air

Even though with me you no longer share

It’s still there in the work I do

In the fact that I’ve always been true

Your lovers come and go and use you

And who is there when you are blue?

Please forget your imagined pain

Which on this love puts a strain

Let’s together look at life’s gain

Let us try to be one again?

~Siddharth Sanyal~

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