PLUNDERED PETALS

Why did you go away,

when I ran dry?

in oozings of nectar

in my sweet  womb?

In flow of youth

In my  honeycomb?

Sucking me to the full

at the root of my virgin spring

making  me speechless

like a dumb human  being !

Thrust into  the whirlpool

of a  constant turmoil now

I ponder and lament

In my long days of dry wait

And in my nights

of dreams soft and  wet;

my conscious is flooded now

with a black beetle’s blind love

that flicked my body

like  droplets of dew

from the bosom of night above.

I’m in  the clasp

of your unseen hug now

unable to fight,

you hold me now

like  my petals of youth

nestling too tight.

‘I’m done now’,

I sometimes do feel

but  painful thouthts  of you

in my head do reel.

You are my  day,

you are night,

you are my soul’s desire

my love’s sweet fire

and my dreams ,all too so  bright !

comp. n copy right : saroj k. padhi

26/09/14