You dragged me in, you dragged me in,
Into the vacuum of a hollow tin,
You embraced me, you doused me,
With warm, squashy paraffin,
Soothing my desires, nay! Me.
The flicker of joy mingled with
The flicker of ecstatic pain,
Like droplets of dust dispersed in rain
Upon the turbid street side water
After the evening shower
Inside you, you let me loose
My turbulence of hope, despair
The nerves of my inner self
My heart, my blood, my every cell
Inside you lay bare.
Ah! You, the fragrant you
The rosy you, the tulip you
The scented you, the unscented you,
That encircled me like incense smoke
Intoxicating me although.
Oh! The short lived, elusive joy
Short-lived? No! No! No!
Elusive? I spat upon the word,
I struck it off from the dictionary
I differed to differ with you.
I tried to defer the hemlock
That was to burn my throat
And burn my heart or block my brain
With pathos; nay! With pain
Ah! You leave me not.
But that was not to be
It was your time to haul out
Into the greenish infinite sea,
And you hove your anchor
From my battered, isolated, harbour.
My love dissolved into the horizon,
And hours after the waves returned
Kissing my beloved’s soul
It brought some words untold
“Adieu! My love, forever”.... “Never!”!
( From my book "So I Used Gray And Other Poems ". The poem was written in 2009)
