If I Could Tell You Poem by Soumili Karmakar

Only if I could tell you I would have said
"You've been my space at a time
When seashells meant empty dreams of a foreign land
Because of hands that carried away pearls shining bright
Where none spoke of the crime
Leaving those shells on shores of sand
Withering away being torn, left shattered by those hands."
Often between intervals of these recurring cycles passing and returning again
I learned to be alive, to be immersed in hues
I found my life in your light.

I couldn't think less of my heart as a seashell
But in those years of my experience I met you
And as soon as you stood before my eyes
All those occupied roads that held many a many memories of uncountable stories of people and of place
Led to my visions of a new birth;
A birth of air and of wind,
Of love and of dreams.

I might one day stand before your eyes
And find the courage to confess and unravel my life.
Never as an escape, but as a promise of finding you
For me it would have been an agape
Brooding onto what it would have been
Waiting and traveling as soon as you come
The child of April's sun
I've listened in many a morning's voice
And felt in my heart.

If we walked together under the silver line
Beside the cherry blossoming trees, or
The path that you stepped into earlier times than me
Only if I could say, I would wish time to freeze.

Time merely a four letter word
Is for many of us like Maple leaves
Memoirs of old souls bidding adieu and souls restoring past, present and future in minds
Every day we read verse after verse to find refreshing air to breathe and to rise.

You might have been unknown to this,
But since I met you
My whole heart rejoiced as boughs swing in merry seasons,
And if some day my verse reaches you
Know this for sure I'm grateful to the Almighty for writing my fate,
And to you for giving me the strength
To raise my mind with notes of grace and shower of mercy everyday.