GODDESS OF SMALL FLING

( published in Replica, in 2001)

When I asked for a little love

you  planted a bomb on my lips.

Thank God it was not of the exploding kind

but soon I found myself in the dangerous deeps

where splinters of dead lovers’ being lay

after the silent shocking blast, an utter dismay !

Sinking still deeper asked for a little kindness,

you  brought the battered self to the surface

but again dribbled some strange potion into the mouth

killing  the dying soul with  surplus kisses

for  I burned and burned till the Sun was out

leaving  behind a huge heap of  blinking ashes.

This  is no politics of blame dear

for I admire  your  style of loving.

Who else could from darkness to light bring?

Save you  O my Goddess of small fling !!

Comp. n copyright :Saroj K Padhi