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A Song of Love

Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay

Olena was advised by her Russian lover
Aviv, not to visit her parents in Kharkiv,
since the Russia-Ukraine war was looming large.
But she did not care and was trapped in the war,
after going there. Aviv, a lensman, opted to cover
the war for a leading Daily. Life risk was there
for Aviv, but he tried to escort his beloved from Kharkiv.

Crossing the Russian border, he reached Olena’s home
near the river Kharkiv. From a bomb,
billowing smokes covered the surroundings.
Somewhere a missile blasted with a deafening sound.
In the dilapidated house, Olena was lying
in pains of parturition. Down her cheeks,
tears were gliding, but after seeing Aviv,
a sign of bliss, as if, flashed on her lips.

With the aid of Aviv, Olena could give birth
to a baby, who was looking like a fairy.
But Olena lost her senses. Ukrainian soldiers
from nowhere, reached there in the meantime.
Seeing Aviv with the baby in his arms and lying Olena,
the soldiers took up their arms.
Thinking of Aviv as the culprit, they caught him.

But Olena said with her open eyes,
“Don’t kill him. He is my husband
and my lover and my baby shouldn’t lose her father”.
She then breathed her last. The baby had cried out,
as if, to ask , “Why did the war start at all?
Please respond to my call. To my mother,
why don’t you take me?”
But words were fruitless in soothing her.

The soldiers instead, saluted the baby
lying in the arms of her crying father
who had lost his lover.
Consolation was fruitless to wipe out the miseries.
A song of love, however, heralded
a new era of peace and friendship forever.

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