WITH ME, IN ME… Moitreyee Raju

 

My fairly broken day...
fragments of which
tend to spill over,
like a glass full of milk,
or is it just spilled milk?
I don't know...
but I feel gloomy and messy,
yet must get busy
to make the day
look somewhat dressy!

And in betwixt this and that
and that and this
you never cease
to bedeck my thoughts...
and like the fragrance
of a freshly squeezed lime
you traverse the contours
of the roomy corners of my mind's sky,
creating a cloudy castle of your scent.

Scent that i never smelt
only felt within myself!
I glide around the castle
like a bird
seeking that rarest spot
to build a home;
But do i find your scent..
or does your scent find me?
Either way
your scent never leaves me.

That lonely corner beside the window
has a solitary picture sitting on it
old, dusty and begging my attention;
I walk up to it
and  every time, every single time
that sylvan landscape
benumbs me to the hilt;
I close my eyes almost naturally
and a swarm of fireflies
guide me to the depth of your land.

I watch you from afar
while you meticulously work
in the field lush green.
I catch hold of the silhouette
of the measured movement of your body,
and captivate it
in all the seven colours of the rainbow
that appears only for me
at this time of the day, every day,
while I dust, clean, arrange and rearrange.

You walk with me
in my little garden
and i very mindfully, try and decipher
what you want to say
and not want to say?
what you want to do
and not want to do?
You're with me in me
and I live on and on with you!

There is a fervid vein in me
that throbs day and night
night and day
only for you.
Someday, someday
in a rare rendezvous
between you and me
I'll surely tell you all about it!

©️MR/5/9/2021
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