How many candles
Did they light for you
My friend
How many bouquets
How many teddy bears
Did children
Or their parents
Did teenage school kids
Did celebrities
Did activists
Hold vigils in your memory
Did they know that you
Once lived
Did they know you were killed
It was a lonely death
But perhaps it was a lonely life
No one noticed
For it was not your tragedy
That you died
It was your tragedy
That you were a poet
Rest in silence
My friend
The media will leave you alone
As they cover your killer
But then who killed you
When did your spirit die
To you my friend
I raise a toast
And I am the only one
Cheers
From one dead poet
To another
Pratip
25 October 2007
Pratip Sen Gupta
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-many-candles-in-remembrance-of-madhumita-shukla-poet/
