| The following excerpts are from one of my favourite poem (on my unrequited love; ‘labour of love’ so to speak, March 2005). A few corrections have been made in the original before republishing it here. |
You may have seen many women around
Tall, short, fair, dark, thin or sound!
But the woman who is the most beautiful
Is spending in a lab joule after joule.
Some five feet six seven inches is her height
Weight 5o kgs? She looks so light!
Fair, tall, slim, so perfect, so right!
She is an angel walking in moonlight!
Her face indeed is the most beautiful
Innocent like a baby going to school!
Short hair, long nose and her glass
She is this world’s perfect lass!
Nose is often the beauty of the face
And that with her is indeed the case.
If you see her nose, your heart will race
You’ll lose your sleep, you’ll lose your pace!
And her sweet voice if you hear
Ants may climb to your ear!
And I said don’t waste diamonds dear-
When once she shed a drop of tear!
She looks like a child and yet mature
So innocent, so innocuous and so pure-
That one day the doctors may suggest this cure-
‘One look at her, the remedy for sure!’
God I think has been rather unkind
To all other women and mankind!
For except her one may never find-
The confluence of beauty, brain and mind!
*****
She spends daily fourteen hours in the lab
Amidst bacteria, centrifuge and autoclave!!
Cold room, shaker, eppendorf , tip and hood
She will do to the science some great good
DNA, RNA, HPLC, LB or GFP
Always working in the lab like a bee!!
In her experiments she has to encounter
Oven, minus 80 and scintillation counter
And in the results the final creation
Find standard error and standard deviation
Find molecular weight, find the protein
And don’t forget to wear gloves on skin
And with radioactivity must take precaution
And don’t work so hard to prevent exhaustion!
Falcon, petriplates, media and culture
May you publish in science, cell, nature
And one day may you be top of the list
Having the names of the greatest scientists!! 
I don’t know how you can feel so much about someone whom you have never even talked to!
I don’t know how you can feel so much about someone whom you have never even talked to! But this is a very nice poem!
wow! what a love story!
Vikas, your love story or shall i say poem really touched my heart and soul. Are yaar, samay hai, tell her your feelings.
there are people in the world who were so stupid that they never expressed their loves
dont be be one of them
Your friend
Prabhat Sardwal
I am understand about your feeling to her.
I hope she can be the best scientist someday…. ”
Regards,
1kepinghati
Ok, ..
You are welcome….
Your poem is more on the eulogy side than on the love side. Where is the passion, the love, the dare to be with the woman you love, if that is love? You have been describing her scientific and laboratory abilities but where is the emotion? Where is the selfless love that poets have spoken of???
Divya,
This was written in 2005 solely to impress her! I deliberately wrote it like that and was trying to rhyme too. This poem in more than 30 stanzas had the whole story.
Nita, I have talked to her for about 30 minutes, observed her in the campus and followed her online in last three years, wrote her a number of mails (two of which were acknowledged) apart from catching a few glimpses in last 3 years when she visited the campus! I think she also secretly visits my Orkut profile.
Prabhat,
It was one-sided love; I have told her of my feelings more than once. She does not like me, period!
absolutely awesome… you are the second one i have met (online in your case).. such a love story!
LOL, smitha. Glad it is over now! The last shreds remain but it will soon vanish in all probability!
1kepinghati, thank you so much!