STOCKTAKE

Don’t know how we spent all these years ?

With our likes,dislikes love, hate and fears?

There were times when you bloomed roses

On moist lips and lotuses in secret spaces

Inviting jealousy in this lover’s greedy eye,

When I always desired to be vaster pieces

Of wet clouds and you , the drenched sky .

There were oft’ times when we cried like

 Two silly babies In each other’s arms

To find answer in silent flow of tears

That dried up soon into new cheers.

Some moments of fights lasted longer

Through shouts and shrieks and cries

To an abrupt silence  at the end

After fights of exaggerated sighs.

However much we fought

It was always our secret desire inside

Not to hurt the other any real way

Love thus had  found a stabler stay;

After a rollercoaster ride across a stormy bay

A sprig of peace in the soul doth silently  sway.

Comp. n copy right : saroj k. padhi

04/11/14