Shadow play
The recent moons have left their nocturnal
rains of dreams in the walls of this house you built me .. with your own hands
with virgin clay and sunbaked bricks of promises you made while you discovered
the Earth that I am.
All the walls are damp and moist emanating
the fragrance of petrichor of our endless conversations echoing of lifetimes
you’ve made me homes of rainbows and dawn mist while you lost yourself in my
eyes. You were suffocating me for fear that I would drift away with monsoon
clouds.
The oil lamps cast bizarre shadows on the
murals you and I painted with soft plaster of sandal paste, passion yolk and
the mortar of resilient commitment.
Terra-cotta walls and floors blended with
our red angst of anticipated separation. Me the Earth and you the
Heavens.
A star shed its gentle light on my nose
pin. My nose was your object of amusement. Not so perfect as you sculpted me in
your imagination. What’s in a nose anyway. I smelt your soul aeons ago. Isn’t
that enough? You found me!
Now suns of several seasons have dried the
walls of our home.. cured and smoothened with our desperate footsteps of
longing and pining, that time was our villain watching our embrace as we lay
mute with the pulse of existence.
The dead silence of such anticipation gets
comic relief from the crickets and cicadas in the thicket of our backyard where
we planted poetry.
Oh love! As a far away moon glides and our
shadows hazy on the dark floor, the bells of my anklets break the still of a
night that threatens to be washed by daybreak as I lie in surrender that you
would redeem my penance. Yet you touch me only with your shadow! And I become a fog sighing with a
resignation that nights are forever and that I will be your shadow.
The Shadow -- Pablo Picasso
The Shadow on the Woman -- Pablo Picasso
Beautiful. Your vivid images drew me in.
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