My poem WITHOUT YOU reviewed by eminent reviewer retired Prof Dr Nirakar Dash Department of English Assam Government
Humbled and grateful.
WITHOUT YOU !
Without you my breath doesn’t run
Nothing else happens in my world
Now I do believe I love you so much
I want to forget you though I cannot
Wherever I go I find your apparition
From morn to eve I want you by me
You’re my world and sincerely I feel it
Without you my morning means zero
My heart throbs in your thoughts only
Such a bond I ‘ve nestled and nurtured
You’re my angulate love and I mean it
With you everything is fairly beautiful
Without you my world is pitch dark.
©️®️Dr Prasana Kumar Dalai@India
Date Fri. 14 March 2025.
REVIEW
Dr Prasanna Kumar Dalai, quite well up in love poems,has written “Without You” with a difference so far as the subtext of this poem is concerned .He has digressed from his usual theme of spiritual love! This poem deals with a triangular love situation in which he is very much serious.Without her — in case she is fixated upon by the second lover — remaining alive would be impossible for him.The jealousy and conflicts involved in the love makes him realise that he loves her to an obsessive extent. Unable to erase from memory, he visualises her appearance wherever he goes.Not a single day passes without her thoughts.The interlinking of the heart beat with thoughts pertaining to her forcefully communicates that defeat under the circumstances is a life and death matter.This is reinforced in the last line by the “pitch dark” image which is contrasted with “fairly beautiful”– that is light, standing for life and wellbeing if he wins in this love.Very beautiful poem,Dr Prasanna Sir!👏🎉 Congratulations and regards!
