What's your true identity?
Is it a momentary flavour
wafting from a cup of tea
or a timeless wonder frozen
with ivory-white marble?
A quixotic battle rages on
to baptize you with a name,
suggesting a blot, a pride
or amidst its regal grandeur
nothing more than a graveyard!
But deep in the recesses
of millions of yearning hearts
you are engraved as a symbol
of everlasting eternal love
on the surface of the earth.
A.K. Das