The sea fails to suffice

The sea fails to suffice

The sea fails to suffice 

For the  lost one drop

If it were a seed of cloud

I would await the rain

But here the drops fill eyes

In vain to recover the lost one

The sea indeed fails to suffice

Even though it overflows often

These fickle shores of vexed eyes

The  horizon changes his visage

With alarming monotony of time

The gory  returns after his dazzle

And cracks into the shell of grey

Often the high tide of helpless pain

Sprinkles a pinch of sea on my brow

But the lost one fails to return to shore.

Delhi

1871

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