Lo…darling!
Time and Space
Have separated us
Away from each other.
As the still air
Carries no essence,
Although petals emit them
Off the flowers-
As the still water
Carries no current
Though waves exist
Upon its bed of slumber…
So does the still time
And the dead still space
Between you and me,
Between hearts and hearts,
Between the burning desires
Bluer than the Sea,
Bluer than the sky,
Bitterer than the torturing distance,
Sweeter than the morning note, sung-
In the hottest of the summer days
By the bird called Cuckoo, the ever
Silence breaker and
The breaker of the hearts! !
Dayal Bagh, Agra,
11.02.1997
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