BRIDEGROOM IN WAIT

My aching heart yearns to listen to the silence

Of words in my bride’s sweet heart tonight

Quelled by chants, noise of bands, blaring mikes, rituals

Bursts of cracker -rockets to a great height;

Beneath cast of tents, display of apparels and flying colours

There lies a simple unostentatious desire to be one with

My  goddess with her soul in silent prayer

Who is always willing my smiles and tears to share

In the depth of an ocean of love blue and feelings so rare

Where I dwell these days in the midst of all tumult and fanfare .

I ‘m here at the Mandap receiving relatives, friends, well wishers

With their bouquets, gifts, radiant smiles and close-ups,

My bride is here too with her blushes hiding stains from tears ;

But I only see her in wait at the secret shore of her love’s soaring sea

Whereto my soul doth silently flee in spirit of an eternal glee

With shower of vernal flowers from heaven’s bowers

Inciting me, for my bridal blossom to be a humming bee .

@ copy right : saroj k. padhi/ 28.02.15