What do you see in her?

So what do you see in her?
Do you see her twists and turns?
Do you ignore her dark past?
Do you see the dawn on her face
And listen to her evening murmurs?

Do you let her tell you her stories
And patiently absorb her childish gestures?
Do you notice the walls within and around her
And take care that she doesn't break them all?
Do you see how she struggles to break your heart?

Do you see the twinkle in her eyes
When she is on top of the world?
Do you pray for just one more day with her?
Or simply one afternoon, or one hour,
Or just one moment!
For only moments last forever.

Always in bits and pieces,
Shattered, my love affair with her
Yet, epochs she lent me have crystallized
My city, my freedom, my Kolkata.