LOTUS’  DREAMS

You are biting your nails

as I gaze at the startled stars of your eyes

that seem to measure the depth of my love

in the hollows of my shallow body—

aching with the miseries of drought and flood

in the land of my  roots, in the flow of my famished blood .

You scratch the earth beneath your feet too

with your toes painted in the scarlet pain of my heart

that has been longing for you

since the dawn of the first sun in my life

with the promise of a salvation in your setting streaks

How much I long to be the pink flesh

under your tooth and nail

biting me slowly into an oblivion of sorts

before  scratching away the cover of illusion

from my face

with the touch of your feet

on the wet ground of my unconscious self

and sending my soul into a trance

in the chill of  your periodic silence !

comp. n .copyright : saroj k. padhi 30/07/14