I Love You, My Valentine

by Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee



That day the sky was olive green And the two green parrots repeated the words 'I love you' Who exactly taught the birds to speak those words I didn't know But I knew it was easy to tell these words in a moment of togetherness The sun no longer shone in the sky It was not the sunset still She promised to come before the sunset. She came and sat close to me. She looked like an angel To my surprise, she was clad in olive green She was for me the sky She greeted me with a casual 'hi' She asked a series of questions One question was - 'What date is today? ' I told '14th Feb' 'And just that? Nothing more? ' I stared at her face and she looked at the seashore. She was silent in the twilight Wanted to tell me something, all right. But what did she want to say? She only said 'Don't you know it's Valentine's Day? I got back to my senses. I was not in mine minutes before. It was Valentine's day sure It was, I heard, 'a lover's day, sure. I wanted to apologise I was so busy telling her 'I love you' I missed what day it was. But when I realised that it was Valentine's Day I forgot her call, her messages I only remembered those three magical words 'I love you' But she had left the place long ago She is gone, gone for ever... Still when every year Valentine's Day comes I feel as if it were my first love day And I will whisper in my beloved's ears 'I love you'.

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thanks to Swati.. you rightly grasped the meaning of my poem, thanks Sony for your appreciation

Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee
16-Oct-2012 10:34 AM

love truly means togetherness.I love u --is an eternal quote,that does not require any valentine day....THIS IS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD BY YOUR POEM

swatisendasgupta
16-Oct-2012 09:47 AM

thank you for your opinion

Dr.Ratan Bhattacharjee
14-Oct-2012 22:10 PM

We understand.Love is such.Quite touching.

Sony Dalia
14-Oct-2012 20:35 PM