So Shy Am I ?

When I summon all my courage

To march ahead and ask

What is your name I realise

Thats not a simple task.

I know you name,you know it well
The plan is superflop,

The prologue of my talk will be

The climax of my hope.

I found a plan so wonderful

I gonna as you time

But then alas! my damn wrist

I have a watch of mine.

I have a thirst unquenchable

Your bottle I may seek

But with no former acquaintance

I know not what you'll think.

If directly I would proceed

And with you shake my hands

Before my intensions you read

I'll say now we are friends,

But what to do if enraged you

Will slap me on my face

The pain in Hell I may endure

But never such disgrace.

To gain your tender sympathy

I had a plan so weird

Appreared with my hair uncombed

And uprgown moustache beard.

When that plan failed, I took the blade

And brushed through all my chin,

My gender was in danger when

They calld me androgyne.

If for some strange coincidence,

I sometimes could you see

To talk or not to talk that is

The question posed to me.

Before I could answer to that

Question positively

Beholding me as if a ghost

You with your friends do flee.

I can from the Airtel tower

For your sake jump and die

But how come vis-a-vis dear

Express my feelings I?

I am no handsome macho-man

Nor am i so well built

For losers like me dreaming such

Is also called a guilt.

Still my feeling is still for you

It will not diminish

You may not come, but I will wait

I have that only wish.

By Umesh Patra

M.A. (Previous)

Department of English

Banaras Hindu University