WEDDING ANNIVERSARY (dedicated to wife Sabita)

Jasmines soaked in pain of the foggy night
Glisten like stars of this December morning
Putting off all our plans of mourning, over
The common loss of lives of many smiles,
That dropped dead as we kept fighting over
Issues trivial while walking long miles ;
Across a desert filled with human sands
That stormed in the way like mirages burning .

You have tided over many such clashes
In your own simple way of beaming
Instead of wailing , when even vultures
Died from over-eating carcasses of dreams
That bled to death in accidents
At our life’s big twists and turning .

Come, my rose of the day,to hug the sweet ray
From Sun’s mellow bones on your soft petals ,
And make me an eternal thorn on your twig
Till the night at the edge of our life finally falls.

Comp. n copy right: saroj k. padhi
04/11/14