WE KNOW

I know one day you will come back following

The lines engraved on the pages of my books,

To feel the pulse of my love, blush for a while

And return to the mirror to check out your looks;

Feel the intense hours that would have gone

Into the making of the lines about your absence

That defined the mood of my moments so lone

And then meet the old, exiled lifer, my patience ;

That impregnated body of my thoughts with your

Specter looming in each corner of my existence,

And the hours of my living, loving and slowly dying

Permeated by the breath of your perfumed essence;

You know you loved me then, and love me now too

Love outlasts age, in the bodiless longings of we two.

@COPY RIGHT : SAROJ K. PADHI 27.05.15