Ambiguous Poem by Saroj Padhi

AMBIGUOUS



Expressions on your shrouded face, my Love

ambiguous like the vague shapes of distant hills

scuttled by a hastening dusk from the horizon

turn inscrutable like the sea that with love kills;



like a night bird in search of his nest, I too skim

its surfing surface, in light of stars in confusion

to wonder at trickle of tears behind each sad smile

when throttled, my desires prefer a holy ablution



in the shallow river of a drying subcutaneous smile

where you seem to work out the difficult sum of life

against heaps of burnt-out dreams, scorn, poor zeal

with alphabets of dead lust, odd numbers of strife;



come up you stars with your true radiance and thrill

come up you Moon to lend my Love's face its true feel.



COPY RIGHT: @ SAROJ K. PADHI / 06.04.18