Snow wants to fall on Sahara
Snow wants to fall on Sahara
Because it remembers
Its tryst with the Himalayas
The open vast land
The peaks and valleys
Where it melted in ecstasy
And lived
Momentarily.
Snow wants to fall on Sahara
But the tulip bulbs of the winter
Get tricked and die
The insurgence of wishes
Colored with red and violet flames
Commit suicide,
Only to reincarnate again
Like garden weeds.
Snow wants to fall on Sahara
I wonder why
Why can’t it traverse and fall?
Somewhere else
Where open arms extend
Open heart flutters
With thirst,
With never ending thirst
To embrace
To melt together again
Like the tryst in Himalayas?
((*.*))
June 5,1998 |