Wednesday 3 April 2019

Arrival

Interrupted breaths, erratic devotion
What has become of me?
A promise I embraced, to hold you in every breath
now stands alone, aloofly.
 
Guru, why now do I feel
the waft of air that you are, so distantly?
I wonder if I gave you away
to the absurd world so easily?
 
I listened wastefully what they said,
forgetting what you are to me.
Please come back, in tears I plead
With my very self, I’ll bathe your feet.
 
Ah! Who else be accused of your exit,
but the puerile me?
How did I expect your divine feet in my home,
when my home itself is awfully filthy?

O Dearly loved!

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