LIKE THE DEEPEST PRAYER

I will hold you close
Locked in my heart
Chained to my ribs
I will hold you away from my lips
Like the greatest secret
Like the sweetest sin

River will gleam in the jungle leaves

When no one would be watching
Will return to this moment
In silent steps of darkness
To drink the nectar of
Joy from the river of life
To be 435 years old Mohua tree again

In the forbidden valley of emotions
In the impossible terrain of desires
In the fading footways of destiny
In this jungle of happy smells
In this spicy exotica of your kitchen
In this touch of life, love of god, forest rain, crooning silence of woods
In this steal of a glance
In this accident of a touche’
In this solitary moment of shared truth
In this lasting look on the railway platform
In this becoming of our own shadows
In the mirror of your unslept eyes

Will walk up to the hillock
Set up on a melting rock will bow to your temple
And offer my body, place my soul

Your still statue feet move
When my hands hold them

By infusing life into dust.
You Answer my pilgrimage.

Like the deepest prayer
I said the untouched
Like a divine river
You touched the unsaid

©nidheeshtyagi / 22 may, 2004