SHE...

(This one is for you, Ana)
I dance with her in the rain..
She lends me her shoulder when I’m in pain..

She gives me advice..
And listens to my inner voice..

She knows my potential..
Tells me when essential..

My Beacon when I go astray
A person who with her elegant smile, makes my day..

She inspires me when I lose faith
Loves me when all do hate..

Listens to me when all ignore
Escorts me when all betray..

Believes me, when others suspect..
Helps when all refuse,
She’ll accompany me throughout my life
Even in the hardest adversity she’ll strive..

In the journey of life, at every cross street,
My face she reads,
And stands beside me whenever I’m bleak.

SHE’s a moon in the dark
---My life’s SPARK!!
A listener who harks e’en to the softest note of my heart..
An observer who marks a trivial change in any task.
A person who was alien in the beginning..
But a sister at last.
A real illusive fantasy, who sees no caste.

A person who in me sees no end,
This UNREALISTIC REALITY is my BEST FRIEND!!

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--Ekata Banerjee