Lekshmy Rajeev

 

Resolute steps

 

Your resolute steps sharp, proud,

yet blind  while walking to me;

timid passion; I tossed  the coin,

I will be passionate I decide,

if it rains tonight

over the sleeping garden.

You were sure to reach.

I talked to you about

the closure of time,

to make a  silhouette, on the walls

for me to feel.

There is no time; take a shape and tell me how cradles  in your  home  rocked and how you  loved  your beloved.

Let me tend to your laughter alone

and the  mirth of your lips after you laughed.

I wish I'd dared to fall in love when

your lips moved against mine.

For the last time, I heard

the resonance of  your  eyes

 

the hundred  funerals you gave me,

as I slipped  into

the arms of the night that bled the patterns of moonlight.

 

Beyond, you slept and faded in the unknown laws of living and was drenched in the rain later.

I wish I'd dared to gather all that I lost.