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Mandakranta Sen

WHEN IT\'S ONLY YOU

I can tell from a man's eyes
Whether he will ever
Be my lover
 
On roads, in buses, at friends' houses
Sometimes my eyes are pinned to
Vulnerable faces
 
I know one of them
Will make me drown
In salty devastation
 
Bursting irresistibly through the noonday earth
A sweat-drenched back will rise
One day
 
I can tell all of this
When you've only just
Appeared on the stairs

WHEN IT\'S ONLY YOU

WHEN IT\'S ONLY YOU

Mandakranta Sen

Mandakranta Sen

(India, 1972)

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WHEN IT\'S ONLY YOU

WHEN IT\'S ONLY YOU

I can tell from a man's eyes
Whether he will ever
Be my lover
 
On roads, in buses, at friends' houses
Sometimes my eyes are pinned to
Vulnerable faces
 
I know one of them
Will make me drown
In salty devastation
 
Bursting irresistibly through the noonday earth
A sweat-drenched back will rise
One day
 
I can tell all of this
When you've only just
Appeared on the stairs
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