Thank you Glory Sasikala 💕💕
https://view.joomag.com/glomag-glomagseptember17/0391059001505732087/p85
To the Dark One
I keep your storm
under my brooding lashes
detached my gait
as if carrying an ocean
is something I do with ease
while my heart wears my ankle bells
There is a forlorn moon
on the prowl tonight
fox ear-sharp her senses, searching for a night
to offset her pale cheeks
In the shadows of your beloved tree, I sink listening to the entrancing ‘bansuri’
My robe keeping out the inquisitive cold , my toes playing with dead leaves
I hid my joy from all
when your dark skin
made me the fair one, now it is my heart
that does the same to me
This night brings the only gift for me
liberty from primeval chains
that have always strangled love,
I dare not sing aloud my ecstasy
There are others who want nothing
but to suffer my plight
Hush the breeze,
Still your leaves, mighty tree
I want the pain of this desertion
To cleave me with its intensity
The moon is one, my heart is another
My soul, you have too many rivals
wanting to explore the joys of being bereft
©ReenaPrasad
Got a poem’Let Me Go’ in this stupendous issue of GloMag which is a print issue and will be in national libraries in India.
