TEARS ON TREE TRUNK

Trickles of dew down all over your trunk

Speak volumes  of the stories of  tears

Shed in the silence of the foggy night

As you tried hard to fight vague fears

Over youthful  Love’s wrong and right -

Of the moon leaving your company

After his long first kiss was nearly over ,

Transporting  you to a damn hot fever

As clouds from the sky  took  over ;

Did you think of your unnamable child

Conceived in the heat of that fever ?

Or were these sweet tears of satiation

Before the morn- imposed  isolation ?

The sticky drops reveal  your silent cries

Under  morning Sun’s muffled, misty sighs

Why do you feign  smiles on your cheeks

As I look intently  into your red hot eyes ?

Comp. n copy right : saroj kumar padhi

22/11/14