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With and Without You…

A poignant and intense poem, by Gargi, exclusively for Different Truths.

This little evening
I inscribe to the leftover fragrance
of your fond absence
that breathes soft and deep
upon the naked ignorance
of your mask, that you hold dearly so.

And I gaze unto your over-sized existence
my passionate plea lost in that crowd.

Alone, I dwell within the abyss
of my misunderstood emotions
the realms of a wasted dream.

I watch you grow a little larger
every hour, in every heart
from true to untrue, I was,
always the inexplicit little lover
loving you so on and so forth
and so absolute with and without you.

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Gargi Dutta
Gargi Dutta is a Consultant Psychologist and Special Educator working for the last 16 yrs in the field of mental health in Kolkata and West Bengal. She counsels and treats adults and children with psychological, emotional or special needs. Apart from this she is bilingual poet and writer who writes both in English and Bengali. She hails from the family of the renowned Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta.

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