COME MY LOVE—a semighazal

COME MY LOVE—a semighazal


Come, my love, why this distance?
I pine so for your fragrance!

I live away from you in
An unbearable penance.

At the slightest sound I look
Searchingly, in hope, askance.

I need not send my message
Of love in common parlance.

Is not most effectively
Love conveyed in true silence?

Tell me you miss me so, too,
Come nigh me, shed this pretence.



* Written in aa,ab, ab 7-7-7-7 format with the same end rhyme throughout. Had there been additionally an end refrain, that would make it a ghazal.

M C Gupta
18 March 2005