Mermaid

emon ekta meye
joler dike cheye
ekla boshe thake
jol-o kande eka
tar dukkho jaye na dekha
ke bojhabe kake...

jol-e jakhon nami
bujhte pari ami
dukkho tar-o ache
o meye tui bol
toke chhara nadir jol
kemon kore banche...

Times Such As These

and yet we shall live on and live on and live
the crust will fall from the promises of life
lost sparrows will lie dead on autumn's window sill
and yet we shall live on and live on and live...

at noon at the attic at our home at the quay
the termites will break on our siestas of peace
our eyes will half open to hear them chew on
and yet we shall live on and live on and live...

when night falls the young things they smile on and love
their loves sting like hornets and paralyse and sting
the hour glasses witness the babies never born
and yet we shall live on and live on and live...

when shall we cry and cry and cry foul ?
when shall the rose nip its blossoms full of lust ?
life's like a wasp on the cobweb of time
and yet we shall live on
and live on
and live...

The Morning After Cohen

it was as if we never knew her
the day had broken
the cheerleaders gone
the wax was sleeping on the turret and the porch
in ruins of the fire our passions had torched

it was as if we never knew her
the dance she had taken
with the songs she had sung
the wine that had flowed from the goblets of fire
all lay in ashes they once called desire

it was as if we never knew her
her bonfire kisses
her fingertip lusts
her Campari glances and Chardonnay tears
all gone like summer for a ten thousand years

oh hail Lady Midnight
you blush
and you lie
you peddle dreams and heartbreaks for a two-penny song
the morning that follows a night gone all wrong