POEM - FRAGRANT INVITATION

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 9:03am

---1---

As you arise from the turbulent lake,

I know you are mine through time

To me you'll always be the girl I held in embrace eons ago

The companion whose love flowed like the life giving elixir

The first rapture of the feelings of youth

Each time those feelings return with an even greater swell

And I search for you everywhere

My broken wings flapping against the cage

Someday, somewhere I'll fly again

Alleviate this pain in me of having half lived

The raven darkness inside wells up as tears

Why did I forsake this life?

To always seek you in others

Your fragrance

Your touch and feel

Your body

Your intimacy

I never stopped missing you,

Yet I looked outside

In spite of the knowledge,

That the fragrance was exuded only for me

To complement mine

You were in me

Those moments were unsullied by the plans of future

Or restrained by the promises of a life together

Where was the need to captivate you in binding?

It was just like knowing 'we'll be together forever'

The belongingness encompassing eternity

---2---

Let us choose to live in another lifetime

As children growing up together

The fragrance of my body shall guide you

Just as your eyes will show me

The expression of invitation there unchanged

Yesterday has slipped away from our reach

And today is just a fistful of sand

Once more let us complete

The emotion in your dulcet note

Reciting as I write

The yellow colour of daffodils

As spring meanders through

The duet in the wind

As we ride into oblivion

Once again, we will be at the nadir of happiness

Or at the depth of despair

The way we were eons ago

The wisdom of the mystical poets we lived

When their names were just obscurity

For what is love, but the need

To feel the yearning and the pain

So that we may experience real ecstasy?