Waiting For Spring Poem by Saroj Padhi

I'm waiting for you Spring
in the solitary garden of my wounded heart
ravaged by dew and untimely rain, fog and love's sweet pain
with strong memory of words of promises
that dropped from petals of your lips like a blissful rain.
‘ I'll be eternally a part of you, …why worry then? '
I smiled an unconscious smile like an idiotic kid
not knowing how suddenly the sky changed its color
to find me with myself heading toward a hard Summer!

Winter had slipped away like a furtive, sly lover
to escape the trials and true tests of being together,
You stare from a long distance like a virtual face-book friend
clicking frequent likes and love to my story of misery
which in a way I too like and enjoy
though at times I grow helpless and angry!

I'll be waiting all my life dear
to feel back the beauty of your beats in my vein,
with dreams of frenzied butterflies rolling in eyes
as we keep listening to the sounds of birthing lilacs
roses and marigolds in the dizzy lap of bright dawn,
I'll be still waiting for you even if you come in your new garb
for the feel of that warmth we relished in the first touch
and in the first kiss which in every new kiss I miss
for the musk of our souls to permeateinto each other
like jasmines of full-moon night readying to blush and flower.


C. R: @Saroj K. Padhi