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By Akash Date: 2004 Mar 08 Comment on this Work [[2004.03.08.12.02.14586]] |
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Gazing at you sleep like a baby covered with white sheets from head to toe brought back memories of those cold nights in my small room facing the river. Those nights were always so cold and we would grab every piece of sheet to cover our bare bodies. As moonlight tiptoed in silence on us through the curtain less window, I would say something into your ears in half whisper and you would say how good I sound when I read my poems. How strong is still the smell of your body in my breath as if I just walked out of a sandalwood forest. Were those moments meant to be lost in the wilderness of yesterday, were those moments a distant memory only to cherish in moments of sadness, were those moments part of a dream never to return again. After months from those moments, I am here with you again in another place, another time - but with a difference in our togetherness - the moonlight is faintly piercing through the dark clouds as the glitter on the surface of the ocean looks like the night is dancing in ecstasy scattering tiny bits of silver beads across the ocean to beckon her beloved as the dark sky rests in the bosom of the ocean like a lover has never been so tired. As I lay thinking about those moments and this moment in silence, I slipped with half spoken words into a lucid dream... |