IN BETWEEN

You are a dream

Caught between an instinctive desire to possess

And my  conscious struggle for complete detachment,

Miles away from the past sheen of our love

And its present fear of a tantalizing sin ;

Trembling like a tremulous Sun on lips of leaves newly born

To speak of the mystery of an inspired new morn

Inside their lungs’ eloquent swells ,

Where desire silently dwells

Like a drunken wind that nestles

In the nest of my swinging thoughts ,

In connivance with wet clouds to end Earth’s droughts

In sprawling deserts of teeming denizens’ unconcern

Where flowers of my longings turn into spikes and stunted thorn.

As I stretch out my hands to catch handfuls of spaces

From the magnanimous blue immensities of your soul

My mind catches fire even during fall of incessant rain

Dousing my  incomplete being with its limitless  pain ;

Why am I interspersed so like a hunger in between

A desiring heart and a deterring mind

An ever expanding image of an idea unfulfilled

And yet so sweet in its agonizing grind ;

I crave, I crawl ; I coo , I call ; I rise, I fall…

Yet I  love to rise again like a robotic doll .

@copyright : saroj k. padhi 16/03/ 15