SHADOWY MEETING

Meet you in the silent spaces

Between words crying to touch your elusive body

In the bewildered night of my elongated dreams

When the surfing waves aspire to ride the Moon

And  your shadow assumes newer faces

As  on the ocean’s inner recesses repeatedly they bloom ;

In the words dying to merge  into the fringe of sky

Where the horizon holds the promise of the last dye

At the dead end of each struggling day

When you become a lump in the throat

Of an excessively emotional lover

Before something  concrete he can say .

Meet you in the siesta of every afternoon

In the fiesta of every dawn and noon

In the tortuous alleys of the mid night

Where memory fights with the present darkness

To fill the moments with some meaning ,

When desires seep into  futile longing

And before you merge into the Earth’s growing sweetness.

Comp. n copy right : saroj k. padhi

13/11/14