RIVER  OF LOVE

As I slowly drown into the deep chasm

Under the waters of your intense love ,

All my tears of bursting agony are gone

Into the depths of your devouring soul ,

When the half moon of my memories

Floats on the surface your azure body

Like flotsam of my sad, lost, lonely being

Battered in battle with Time’s harsh sling.

Even your last hand-written love letter

Is marooned in the island of my ever increasing amnesia

Sulking like a lost baby in dark corner of a fair,

When the words of my elegy jump off the last floor

Of the skyscraper of your ambition to the fatal ground

Of my blatant fall, with a desire to open a new door;

Let there be not a slightest remnant of my lost body

Anywhere in this world so occupied with things other than love

Let me sink into a silent oblivion of your devouring passion

Like a trapped, voiceless, sinking, brooding  dove .

@copy right: saroj k. padhi

14/03/15