The Averted Shipwreck

She was just seventeen 
The flowers had started blooming

The flower doesn't bloom for itself
It wants to mingle in another breath

The parents scolded heavily
The petals moaned with pain in the veins

The flowers didn't stop blooming
At the pot of seventeen they seldom stop

What's the point in the blossoming
if the scent can't be exchanged

at the intoxicating corridor
with the eyes closing in the blue uproar

of scarlet cascades
Over thousands of blades

The hailstorm was brewing
the moon needed to awake

She was kept confined to her room
School teachers came and counselled

None could feel the heat
None could heal the corporal twitches


Attempt  to commit suicide alerted the father
The petals turned nihilist

Was taken to the psychiatrist
Was given anxiolytics

The petals faded, the scent closed the door
The cage revolted for the blue sky

An uncle said he knew a psychoanalyst
Who could deal with the disease deftly

The father agreed and the uncle
accompanied her to the boy friend

The fusion was magnetic
The norwester raged about with lightening

The unspent birds got released in the garden
The buds were keen to return

The depleted river returned too
And the cool full moon sat in the wind

The psychoanalyst then reoriented her thoughts
The uncle gave her woolen friendship

The ship now sailed in the river with blue red and white flags
The viewers on the bank would not even blink their eyes 
 
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March 4, 2018

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Murray Avatar
March 4, 2018 at 4:04 PM
Is there ever a love as tumultuous as first love Probir?
Gupta Avatar
March 4, 2018 at 6:14 PM
Most likely you know better ... Thank you for visiting and commenting ...
Andresen Avatar
March 4, 2018 at 12:41 PM
- A both sad and beautiful story, Probir - It reflects goodness very well - Luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
Gupta Avatar
March 4, 2018 at 6:15 PM
Thank you, Sunshine ...
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