Sunday Poem By Akash Karmakar

*Greetings Card*

Dazzling greetings, warm wishes scrolling

Dear ones waiting for mandatory midnight call

Alcoholic celebration kicks off a frenzied 365 days

Cracking fireworks add toxic spark

Even the school goers’ ambience are getting topsy-turvy

Late night parties wake up in a dizzy dawn

Enjoying, dancing, screaming, shouting

Hugging, kissing one another

Gradually the inebriation fades away

Under a table lamp or sitting in the river bank

Mourns for oneself

Known faces bid adieu

Lots of resolution dissolve in the rheum.

One day I pull my drawer

And find an old friend, may be far away he is,

On the left top corner my name still shinning

On the right bottom corner his name too

We don’t call, don’t talk, don’t meet,

Don’t dance on the new year eve

But in between words of affection, love relive

It’s not a relics of proximity.

I just fold it again and keep in the drawer

With a silent message,

I get lots of greetings, but not a greetings card.