If You Go Away
If You Go Away
(Collected Poems)
By
Menonim Menonimus
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If You Go Away (A Collection of English Poem) by Menonim Menonimus, Published by www.menonimus.org
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CONTENTS
(If You Go Away)
Love is full of Bliss
Give Me a Piece of Paper
Telegram
Symbols
Rose and Fire
Harbinger
Ode to Spring76
If You Go Away
For Love (II)
Devotion
To God
To Medona
Alas!
Deviation
That You Say
Certainly
The White Dove
After My Death
Love II
I am Tired
Talk of Mine
The Bright Sun
Good Deeds
Tears
Light
Again Drops of Tears
Friend
My Love
He is Coming
Look at the Spot
Dream
You Say
Learn by Life
Patriotism
To My Mother
In Search of a New Sun
To-night
Unfelt Feeling
With the Feeling of Love
My Companion
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IF YOU GO AWAY
(TEXT)
Love is Full of Bliss
Love is truly full of bliss
It hums in my ears like bees.
What will I think of my flower?
Is she always mine and near
Is she for my heart and care
Love can but never sear.
What will you think of me?
I’m always thine and thine
Be truer as you seem to be
You are mine and solely mine. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Give Me a Piece of Paper
Give me a piece of paper
Let me have written the diary of the night
The page of which is full of blood
I’ve ink but of tears
Sighs are the letters
Words are made of pain
Sentences are made of shrieks.
The interpretation of which will be death.
Perhaps I’ll not be living by tomorrow
I’m a crest-fallen being
Now sunk in the sea of woes
I see nothing- I’m turned blind
Everywhere there is dark and deep dark
The stars of my sky have set down
Even the glowworms are beaten down by the storms. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Telegram
For long days he is away from home
His poor parents took him about here and there
Even they are unable to catch his shadow.
He was a young boy of twenty
Playing of football was his hobby
Even he won some matches
He was simple, handsome
And curious to know more
But the whip of poverty drove him away from home
Someone reported to his father:
He has got a job in a gang of terrorists
And having finished his gorilla training in Myanmar
He is serving in the northeast.
His father lost himself in the air of tears and sighs
And muttered within himself:
Why had he not died in the brew?
All of a sudden he happened to hear
The knocking at the door
Opening up the door he met the peon
Who delivered to him a telegram
Where was written:
My dear father,
Think not of me
I’m in the world of the Sun
In the light of which I’ll present you with a newer life
Full of peace, equality, brotherhood and fellow-feeling
Free from poverty, fear, disorder and exploitation. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Symbols
Long, bending, twelve-colored, charming Rainbow
Is glittering in the eastern sky
But my hand is empty-
Neither a stick nor a ladder is in my hand
To bring down the bow
I leap and jump putting my hand up and up
But every time I stumble down and got wounded
I’m now wound-stricken
Yet I leap and jump
I hope one day wings must grow on my arms
And then I’ll fly up to the sky
I’m a piece of stone
That can both speak and move-
But never breaks down. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Rose and Fire
.
Rose is in your hand
Fire is in my belly
Would you like to exchange your rose
For my fire?
Would you like?
Friend, wait and see-
Your rose is your volcano
My fire is my spring! 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Harbinger
You’ll like and love my lines and speeches
As I draw your veins, your skins, your heart and brain
I speak in your voice
And utter for you what you ought to utter
You have been walking through a maze
in the dark.
You have been speaking in the tone trained by the
ages
You have been eating, drinking, doing as your fathers did.
A day must come when you’ll see with your own eyes
Speak with your own voice
Act with your own hand
Think with your own brain
Feel with your own heart
And then I’ll be your dearer
And then you’ll see all my uttering is your own
My uttering is the cock that will wake you all. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Ode To Spring
O Spring, the darling of all the seasons
Thou art matchless, ever young, evergreen
Ever glorious, ever beautiful just like one’s first darling.
Like a sullen beloved, you remain far away from me
And this absence enhances my love for thee.
You remain silent in a drowse-like monsoon
That rising up from hibernation in the month of April and May
Carry clouds and rain and moisturizes the dry- thirsty land
And adds spirit to the roots of grass, plants and crops.
You are the brook that issues out of high hills
And glides down making melodious songs to our ears.
You are the overflood with a heavy surge
That inundates the earth and fertilizes
The crust of our dales and vales.
You are the rainbow that bears twelve colours
To lull the love-stricken heart of the poets.
What are the Moon and her beauty in front of thee?
In thy face thousand flowers bloom
Spreading fragrant smell and allure
Thousand of birds and bees to dance and fly upon thee
Thy forehead is the source of infinite rays of light
Borrowing some of which the sun enlightens our Earth.
You are a book of poetry reading which
The poets invigorate their creative power.
You are a flock of fawns
That dance and leap on the green grass
And plays hide and seek with the travellers.
You are a compact disk
That contains thousand of tunes and cadences
Borrowing only a few of which
The singers sing songs and achieve glory.
Thou art a resource of music and lyrics
That has produced our Lata, Jackson, Johnson and many a Rafis.
Thou art a lake of living love
That makes us live and keeps us living. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
If You Go Away
If you go away from me
Perhaps in my mind there will arise:
Some reminiscence, some darkness, some rays of light
Some queue of smiles and some drops of tears.
If you go away from me
Perhaps in my mind there will arise:
The transparent sky after raining
The glittering moon-light
And the moments that you had handed over to me forever.
If you go away from me
Perhaps in my mind there will arise:
Some feelings that would make me mad
Or make my life cease to living. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
For Love
Perhaps I’m the most selfish
For that-
I can stick to you
All my life-sucking the juice of your love
I’m obstinate and mad of you
For I can live or die with you
I can laugh and weep with you all my life.
Perhaps I’m the most selfish
For that –
I can go away from you in a moment forever
In the light of the day
And even in the dark of the night.
And can live just with thy memory. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Devotion
Have you not heard of me?
I’m your devotee for long.
A poor patient of love
I suffer and die, suffer and die
And take birth again only for your love
I don’t know-
Whether you know or not
I’m your devotee for long. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
To God
God, why have you brewed me?
Is it for suffering?
God, why have you produced me?
Is it for your sports?
I’m in your hand a ball
You hurl me, kick me as you wish.
God, I’m your devotee
Give me the shapes as many as you like
And satiate your thirst.
God, bestow upon me
All the sorrows and sufferance of the universe
Let me die and take birth to lull thy desire.
But please, my God, spare my offspring.
God whatever is your will—
Express through me
I have kept open my heart, my soul, my hand
And my eyes and my head
Let me be the compact disk of all thy wills
And let me show Your might. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
To Medona
My Medona for so long days
Secretly
Whose dream have you composed?
Tell me-
How can I help you
To safeguard your all dreams?
Tell me, my Medona
My chest is kept open
You can vouchsafe your dreams here forever. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Alas!
Why should I need to keep up
The juice of my love?
What is at present
Is falling heavily to the wall
For want of a cup.
Alas! I’m moribund
Due to the wastage of my flower. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Deviation
Friends, let me take a deviation
From the path of yours
Mine is never trodden
None has travelled before through my road
It is cliffy, rocky and full of thorns
Let me walk through and bleed
Let me see, tread and conquer
Or let me die in my feat.
I think it better to die in the struggle
Than to live like a coward. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
That You Say
That you say against me-
Is the melody to my ears.
That you censure me-
Is the sweet music to my heart.
That you keep away from me-
Makes my love deep to thee.
That you look at the sky-
Means that you look at my heart
Every night, every day
I travel to eternity. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Certainly
Certainly, you have killed me long ago
Now what you see is only my phantom
The deed I pursue is my habit only.
I’ve nothing to claim to be mine
I’m in the hand of destiny-
A puppet, a robot.
I do nothing
Only what my flesh does
Is the abeyance to the commander.
Certainly, I’ve no eyes
My eyes have been made blind long ago
What I see is dark only. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
The White Dove
Look at the sky.
The blue of the sky is covered with clouds.
The sun is shining but the light reaches not the earth.
The stars twinkle but in vain
The hills have trees but no leaves
The spring has water but no flow
The birds are in the air but their wings are broken
The flower- plants grow in lush
But there is no fragrance.
The lake is full of water but we are thirsty.
All are in chaos again
As the cosmos was in the beginning.
Only the hours are living
Look at the sky-
A white dove is flying over the clouds.
It is about to fall down to our lap
Come out, my mates and maids
Let us come out of our ever-locked door
And let us break down the vault of clouds
And let the white dove come down. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
After My Death
After my death
Let me not forget the moon
The trees, the woods, the bowers with golden lily,
The silvern jasmine, the sweet-voiced parrot
With them, I live all my life.
Let me not forget-
The rippling sound of the mountain spring,
The soaring song of the lark,
Humming music of the bees and birds.
They were my playmates since my birth.
Let me not forget my friends and colleagues
They loved me much.
Let me not forget my foes
They taught me a thousand lessons.
Let me not forget my hard beloved
She taught me to suffer long. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Love II
Love is a word
O no,
It is a feeling.
O no,
It is a divine bliss
As hard as a metal
As easy as air
As brittle as a piece of glass.
It is as obstinate as a viper
If it bites one must die. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
I am Tired
No, don’t approach to me
Just this moment.
No, don’t embrace me
Just this moment.
No, don’t look at me
Just this moment.
No, don’t put your arms toward me
Just this moment.
Because-
I’m too much tired of your cruel love. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Talk of Mine
Talk of mine
If comes to your mind
Tenderly open up thy heart
There you will happen to see-
My love is sitting silently
Singing song to thee
The song of spring. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
The Bright Sun
(To Sister Patricia)
Sister,
Look at-
The bright sun is ahead of you
It rises up
Peeping through the blanket of the horizon
Divining away the crowded clouds of its orbit.
Welcome it, sister
Catch it up to your chest
How bright, how lovely, how joyful,
How pleasant the sun is!
Still, it is morning, the noon is at a distance
It seems you are already near it
But am I?
I am far away from its sight.
Throw your eyes to the west
Look at and be glee
You have already acquired the wings
To fly up to it
But am I?
I am a beamless star shrouded by dark and dark
And visible no more
Hold tight to your sun
And let me be shined in thy light. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Good Deeds
Mind, don’t be disturbed within
In name lies nothing
The deeds we do is all
If our deed is well
We are well
Otherwise, a man will fall.
Can a thing acquire praise?
If it is worthless in service
The glory of life comes
Not from vain fame
But from the deeds one does
If you call a cuckoo
Either bastard or mulatto
It would sing-song fine so.
The sea is a sea-
It does not lose its depth
If we call it desert.
If you call a bee by any other name
It would not cease to sting.
O mind don’t be blind
Look at the page
Many have earned fame, not by names
But by honest deeds.
You also can earn so
If to your name good deed you can feed. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Tears
For the whole night shower of tears
Came out of my eyes
As the gust of monsoon springs from the ocean
And fertilizes the barren glade
It was the wind that turned into a hurricane
And struck my inner heart
And then my heart began to bleed blood
As the hills shed tears on the river.
Drops of tears and blood fell on my chest
Like a glittering star or like frozen snow
Sometimes it appeared to me
As white as a white elephant is
And sometimes it seemed as red as jasmine
Or as red as fire flame is
I asked them, “What art thou?”
They smiled and said, “Love, love, love.”
I wept and bewailed-
How pathetically love is going out
Of my eyes and heart! 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Light
Where there is the rising sun
I’m out of that place
Where there never rises the sun
My journey is there
My birth is a journey
And my journey is to the state of darkness
As I think, I’m destined to enlighten the dark universe. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Again Drops of Tears
Again drop of tears fell on my left palm
As a comet falls on the earth’s atmosphere
And bewilders all the scientists and
Make the world wonder.
Tears not red, not pearl-like but white
And green with all greens
Why did it come out, what was its cause?
I thought now and then
It came out as fruits come of flowers
Or as the darkness out of the sun
I knew not why it came out, hence I asked:
“Tell me why you have come again”.
It wept and said in a muttering voice:
This is the symbol of white love.
Then I realized: why I am so sad
Love is a labyrinth and a net
Coming out of which is not easy and safe. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Friend
I’m unknown to myself
Yet I’m a friend.
I’m known to him
Yet I’m not known to him
Friends are many
But few are there
Who shine like jewels. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
My Love
My love is my everyday sin
It is my face
Wherever I go
I carry with.
My love is the greens
That import fresh air to breathe.
My love is a man
Everywhere his image is in my heart. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
He is Coming
He is coming through the unpaved path
A round ball is in his palm
O, no it is a sun
The sun is full of fire
But free from dust, venom and germ-
Our far crying star.
Let us welcome the boy with the sun
My mates and comrades come
And let us stand strong
Let the sun be our flag
Our future lies in its shade
Let us hoist the flag
Otherwise, we will die. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Look at the Spot
Look at the spot
Here still visible is the blood
The blood of a thousand uncorrupted hearts.
They knew not how to protest
They knew not how to suck youth and blood
They knew not how to handle a gun
Or burst the ball of powder
More they did not know-
How to kill and kick and make victory.
They just began to know how to protest
It was their only crime.
Death was their only reward
Now they are sleeping safe and sound. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Dream
I’ve dreamed a dream of your face
Glittering like the golden paddy
In the field of November.
Your lips speak to my ears that know no ends.
Your two eyes speak to my eyes
That utters no word yet verbose.
Your mouth is dumb
Yet speaks a thousand words unto my heart.
I’ve dreamed of your hair-
The hair is as bright as the sun of the April Sky.
It emits keen light by which
We can see even at dark night. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
You Say
You say, “You are a poet.”
Yes, I’m a poet-
As I’ve only one room
Where I sleep, I think, I repose, I weep,
I smile, I read, I write.
Yes, I’m a poet-
As my hair has turned grey before time
My belly burns day and night
My hands keep busy with wood and stone
My eyes keep vigilant
While others are in sleep.
Yes, I’m a poet-
As I’ve only a pair of hackneyed dress
Having no pocket. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Learnt by Life
It is mine
Mine is this
All about this is mine.
What is mine is yours
But what is yours is not mine
Let it be a proverb
As it is learnt by life. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Patriotism
Let us be brothers
Let us be sisters
Our mother is one
Wombs are many
Let us be as our mother wishes.
Let us be flowers-
Some of us lotus,
Some of us jasmine.
Some of us marigold,
Some of us rose
And let us together make a garden
With our variety of colours and flavours
Let us make our land an Eden of Heaven. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
To My Mother
Mother,
Why had you given me birth to as a human child?
If I were a bird
Then I would have enjoyed freedom!
But it would have been better
Had you given me birth to in the deep forest
Far away from human home!
Mother, it is your society
That has corrupted my flesh, my soul, my eyes, and my desire.
I’m shackled everywhere.
Mother, I’ve voice but suffocated
I’ve hands but manacled
I’ve eyes, mother, but I’m turned blind.
I’ve brain, mother, but made inactive
I’ve ears but I cannot hear
I’ve a tongue but while I open my lips
Then stones and bricks are hurled unto my breast.
Why should I need to live?
Mother, bless me with the boon of death.
Mother, it would have been best-
If you had not given me birth to.
Mother, look at the sky- the birds are flying in freedom
They are nobler than us
Mother, have you ever seen any bird
To suck and sip the blood of its kind?
Or have you ever seen any beast to eat the flesh of its brother?
Look at us mother,
Our hand is reddened with the blood of our fellow
brothers! 0 0 0
If You Go Away
In Search of a New Sun
I go out
Welcoming the Dark
I wander and wander
And at last
In the plain point of the Himalayas
I weep and rest.
Thus from hour to hour
From moments to moments
I go ahead by the bank of Eternity
At dead night when the mist and fog come down
I send my eyes up to the sky
In search of a new sun
That will enlighten our black hearts. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
My Companion
When I set out for an unknown world
I remind-
The face of my mother full of pathos
The forehead sweat of my father gifted by the fiery furrow
I keep preserved the colours of their dreary days.
Their distorted faces are my sole inspiration to gallop ahead. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
To-night
To-night
The world becomes pregnant
By the paws of the century
All the nymphs sing the song of rebirth
Breaking the silence of the night.
The glow worms show them the path to light. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
Unfelt Feeling
The Pathos
Dripping from the heart
Breaking both the banks
Flows over the hot belly of the plain.
The taciturn sun falls upturned
From its oven-formed orbit
The stars of the nocturnal sky stop to smile
Veiling up their golden-tinged teeth. 0 0 0
If You Go Away
With the feeling of Love
With the feeling of Love
Forgetting high and low
Shaking off your hand from the trammel
Of terror and hypocrisy
Putting out the flame of conflagration
Sing the song of
Love, integrity, equality, prosperity
And let us live.
Our hand and face-
All are the same
My blood is red
Your blood is red
You feel pain if wounded
As we feel
Then why is so much bloodshed? 0 0 0
If You Go Away
The End
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