ABSENCE

Pigeons jump on the grass field

Engrossed in their picking worms under a warm Sun

Like words on a green page in the eyes of Dyslexia ,

When you appear with your intense invisible presence

On my white page like the deep scar of a black aporia,

Untying riddles about my secret love of the infinite sky

That stretches out beyond the reach of rustling trees

Like an inexhaustible enigma of an ambiguous  silence ;

As I pretend reconciling myself to a life in your absence .

The distant swaying banana leaves unfurl

The mystery about your secret love of my agonized heart

Like pages of a romantic novel turned one after the other

In the white heat of engagement with unknown shivers

In the depth of my soul

Craving for your surrogate presence !

@ copy right : saroj k. padhi, 23/03/15