This is the time!

Sitting alone on a January afternoon

Sipping coffee and reading a novel,

Comfortable-cozy through the long winter evening

With all the time to myself today.

At school t'was the time to prepare for upcoming exams;

During Bachelor’s was time through the exams;

Never was the time to enjoy the self.

But now, this year

This is the time!

Time to spend, all with myself.

Time that I wished to have for long.

But now the feeling of loneliness creeps inside,

Sometimes, the want ‘to pass off the time’ fast comes to mind.

Never can I be content with what I get!

Or is it human nature in itself…

Dr. Pallab Kanti Nath