BREATHLESS

Breathless I wait for you behind the wild bush

Like the moon behind a dark cloud for the morn,

For the sight of love’s sweet face we two bleed

In half-lit shadowy spaces, torn by invisible thorn ;

Each shadow of this night draws a picture of you

As you boil like a hot Summer in my young blood,

Each wisp of wind enlivens your fragrant presence

In chants of your musical name in susurrant sod ;

Each foot step in dark makes me imagine you near

Till the night thins down to end all frights and fear

And dawn cracks to reveal only part of your beauty

Dispelling nightly delusion, making things all clear ;

Your deep sleep is the dark at my dreaming eyes’ edge

You’re a panoramic view from behind a thorny hedge !

@COPY RIGHT : SAROJ K. PADHI/22.05.15