ALPHABETS  OF  LOVE

Etherized  by too much pain I hardly mind

Your giving still a little more --

Your annual doses of a card or two

With those familiar alphabets

That years back inked your last love letter ;

Wishes of anniversary or new year

Tear  thro’ this heart’s inner walls

Like acid that burnt faces of girls

Who refused when forced to comply ,

And I’m sure the more pain you give

Nearer to your crumbling images

like a masochist I fly

Spreading my half-broken wings across

The faded rainbow of our love in your eye .

Time has stolen the earth from under my foot

The sap from the shoot

The trunk away from  my root

And the limitless expanse of a glorious sky

For my words to jump into  fall

Of mists in morning leaves’ tear-filled eye

Where like dew under Sun swiftly and  sweetly I die .

Comp. n copy right : Saroj K. Padhi

24/11/14