Delving into the Language of Unspoken Love

Guna’s poem explores the complexities of affection, highlighting its silence and unresponsiveness until separation, exclusively for Different Truths.

It was gleaming
with the gaze
 
Affection is dumb,
Affection is deaf,
 
Like a speaker, it did not speak about
the matter
like a listener, it did not listen to
 
Till the moment of parting
it kept waiting in the eyes
 
In the thick green
of the desolate woods
A tune is ringing faintly
 
Gazing at the eyes
I want to see
 
Is it still alive?
 
Oh dear!
No way, no way
 
Cleaving the heart
comes out
a curious sigh
 
In the teary gaze
is it still alive?

Original poem titled “Anurag tomar babe”  

                                                Translated from Assamese by Nirendra Nath Thakuria

Picture design by Anumita Roy