The Lilac Afternoon

One afternoon in a walk alone
In wilderness and so our hearts
swarmed with what life has shown
Fastened hands and our mirths
Her shoulders kept on brushing mine
And together our hands swayed
She talked little for silence to shine
And to her notions I obeyed

The contrast in locations played

Here and there and in thoughts too

Sun and shadows all over spread

A white dove and a dark cuckoo

Her brows peaceful in a curve

As if swans soaring in a line

The eyes though in some nerve

I teased them and then were mine

I thought imbibed in them, they are

The only string which dangled me

And in her eyes a distant star

In dreams a lifelong jubilee.

Then we stood by a lake

And made some scintillating ripples

In a moment they stop to shake

But in her eyes and delightful dimples

They kept on doing an encore

In them their dwelling permanent

Long after when we left the shore

I don’t know what they meant?

Asked her to take a bud

High and back of her head

From where her plaits spud

And from where the rivers lead

Didn’t allow me to pluck

And picked up a petal red

And then turned for me to tuck

Then she meekly said

That ‘our love can never harm

A butterfly or a sprout young

And then will never lose charm

With hands or even tongue.’

In full harmony I agreed

And nodded with my eyes

To that lovely creed

With some heavy sighs

While peeked into her heart

Through those eyes immensely true

Found it pulsating hard

And me drinking the dew

Were not tired in spirits though

But surely in the limbs

And looked for where to go

Away from peering jinks

We found a flamboyant tree

A little far from where we stood

Its shade pink and flowery

Isolated and extremely good

Its magic had an appeal

And was not to be fended off

when under it eloped the heavy feel

our eyes then droopy mauve

and burnt them to our union auspicious

but placed us in positions oblique

that small separation gift, a pious

and gave us a tingle unique

I leaned against the gulmohar trunk

and gradually helplessly slided low

my eyes and heart already sunk

in ambers of her love, left to grow

all the while my restlessness dreamt

Sheepishly she approached me

without a hint but her fragrance faint

like a dab of Jasmine flowing free

her snowy hands covered my forehead

sent molten snow down my spine

but to her had already submitted

Her open tresses silky fine

with colors from nights, the darkest

covered my bloodless face

And my throat was then the driest

When touched by the colder necklace

She smelt of wild lilies

And her breath in burning breeze

Could hear her heart with ease

To each beat mine would cease

In her symphony of her gasps

My dreary heart did dance

And as she withdrew the gaps

I shivered in awe in my trance

And when she took her palm off

In veins from all sides gushed

My sizzling face in reddish buff

As if to it all the blood has rushed

Then the touch in moistened lips

So supple like an orange piece

And like a glacier in some ocean dips

an infant the same way giggles

the music of the subtle force released

And then she took a deeper breath

and my cheeks next to be teased

Felt like on them her lips did melt

but then after it she paused

Her face i could not then see

But none of her breath I lost

in them what was coming to me

overwhelming and devoted love

To remain in me in my eternal glee

Higher than the sky and even above

No one takes it neither will it flee

The osculation my lips received

a feel it can be concorded with

Cannot in speech be perceived

only with a cheerful peaceful death

Such present my beloved tied

In dream of dreams when she came

Like two tides in opposing ride

meet to lose in each other’s shame.