Touch

Shrewd eyes with lustrous twinkle

Frosty hair and petite wrinkles

A full moon beneath black sky

An ocean into which I’d voluntarily dive
 

 Conscious of your poise

I tenderly stepped

On grass.

Or rather, on myself.
 

Your charm wooed my spirit

Your wisdom put me into trance

Your voice robbed my heart

But I alone, stole your glance
 

 I was caught guilty though

You knew it all along, I am sure

With shrill eyes, an examination

Heart pummeled and I was near
 

Divinity echoed in my ear and

A cherubic palm rested on my hand

A minute longer and

I’d have fractured into sand
 

I simmered in ecstasy

A love-struck chaos

Stirred the butterflies

And let them out loose
 

Until now, you only touched me

In ways I couldn’t gauge.

Tonight, you touched me

And I know nothing else

But to eternally change.

 

 

To a teacher

I look at you when you do not see

Laboring to unearth what it is

About you that one cannot love

And with that I love to be

 

A teacher’s tender solace

And sunny smile

Oh! The sweet meekness

The crinkle of your eyes

 

I’d craft myriad excuses

To just be with you

Sit in quietness, see you laugh

Or amble, gently with you

 

A love, so chaste

A word, so reassuring

A lesson, so plain

A smile, so venerating

 

I gawk at the paper; blank

Incalculable emotions; too good to be true

In all, hard to find

An answer to illustrate my love for you

From a lover

I am lost

In a tide so enormous

Swollen with people

And their desire to touch him

I am looking

From a tide so enormous

Tiptoe; wobbling waves

To see what they are looking at

I am seeing him

Clad in white; hair to ankle

Among tears and laughter

Cries to just touch him

I am seeing none else

Blind; swimming in sweat

In haste, to reach him

Eyelids do not bat

I am saying his name

With the enormous tide

A desire, so collective

My heart has now moved up

He stopped there

Heart now clogged my throat

Turned around; him smiling

Searching

Searching for someone

Me? Smiling

I swallowed hard to unclog

Unclog my heart and brain

Waves immobilized

Crest and trough; frozen

Patterns reveal my way

Only one, to The One

I am flowing

A fluent river through a sea

Towards open white clouds

River gathers speed

My face against his chest

My arms around his waist

From an unexplored dimension

His love, I taste

His warm embrace

Melt into me

Like fusing clouds

The subtlest it could be

How many more dreams

Of such should I see?

Before he makes this

My reality?