The Female Companion 

Not so easy to assure someone 

It isn't easy to bear the burden lifelong 

It is simple truth but who doesn't know

Simple truth can't be so simply told.

It's drunk inside my feet, beneath my feet

It's all drunk, and to this booz we're all beholden

Even at refulgent high noon accompanies agape

That corpse-burner woman on the river Ganges.

That ageless, helpless, tearless woman

Aren't you my very companion of all time?

It isn't easy that you'd make me happy

It isn't so easy that you'd give me pain.

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Red lights weren't there

Yet the stormily speeding Kolkata city

Came to a dead stop