Why wait for the full moon night

Why wait for the full moon night

Your smile bathes the night every day

Why wait for the night

It is there in the smile of day

Each leaf each rock

Nay the very sod I tread

Why wait at the gates

When you are there

In my breath

And in every sigh 

Of the mountain breeze

And in the wing of the bird 

In flight on an invisible swing

Why wait for your honeyed voice

I hear you in the sounds

Of the silent trees

That sway as the breeze sings

I hear you in the quiet

Pierced by bird song

And in my shrine of stillness

Amidst the winds of thoughts

Knocking at my doors

Why wait to sleep in the sea

Of your eyes

They stretch all over me blue

From star to star and cloud to cloud

I wash your smiles

With my tears that don't stop

And the milky glow

Shines brighter

With each drop

That bite my eyes

They trickle down your snowy robes

A stream of joy

And wash your feet 

Wherever they go

Sita's dream

Going up the serpentine

Steps So narrow and long

Like a tunnel into the sky's end

Yet I moved fearlessly along

My limbs crushed

By the surrounding walls

Was it my head or my feet?

They all went up 

All the way

Panting.

It was as if nothing could stop

Harpies, little dragon birds

And bats flew down.

Nothing stopped

As my body and soul

went Up

Round and round

Up the curving steps

That did not seem to end

Yet the climb was joy

To meet the one

I knew was there,

Waiting and urging me on.

And there he was

His limb hung down

It was the tip of a tail

That will burn a city of gold

To unite my captive heart

With its lord.

And yet the joy must yet await

Another climb

Another journey long

Across the seas 

And lands

Of patient wait

Till my heart breaks 

And I find Thee.

Why mothers don't die

Tell me child why you

Want balloons.

And then you cry

When they burst

With a bang.

There was too much breeze 

From the window;

It was the western wind

That broke them;

The yellow then the green.

Tears as big as them

Shook the earth.

The breeze too stopped

For a while;

Till you got a white

One this time.

And what if this too goes

The same way child?

Will you again flood the room

And send me afloat to

The town for more?

Balloons don't live

Forever,

Who will tell the child?

So mothers don't die

Till every child has a balloon

Each time they cry.

You never came

When I woke up you were gone

Your robes soiled lay

On the floor

Waiting to be washed 

With sun beams

And the froth of the western breeze

 I searched everywhere

For you

No one answered

My cries echoed back to me

Then I saw you again

And you said you never came

As you never were gone

For you were the breeze

And the sun shine

That kissed all that was seen

Even the robes

I mistook for you

When the sun hid for some time

Make me not a tear drop

 Make me not a tear drop 

That will flow away

From your eyes;

Nor your breath that would 

Leave as it came;

Nor a shadow 

That is yet away from you;

Nor anything that

Must live away from you;

Indeed unmake Me.

And yet I ask not to

Be free,

But to be so bonded

To you that I never

Separate from thee.

Did you leave your fangs in heaven?

Did you leave your fangs

In heaven

Or hid them under the doorsteps

As you came hearing me cry? 

And your lion hues did you hide

In your eyes that now look

Muddled like an ocean

Of golden tears?

And your bloody nails

In the shoes you wore

As you came in a guise

You thought I never

Would know?

Do you now recline

In those eyes

Which like two boats

Row me to your arms

Faraway in me?

My angel of light

My angel of light
Kind light
Bathing the night of my being
Each ray glimmers and falls
Like a hand kind extended
To bless
Each ray like your foot
Stretched
For me to touch
And be blest
My angel of light
Your wings of silver
Sweep away the
Dust of dark and grime
Till I shine.
Bruised and cowering
In the womb of dark
In fear
Your light covers
Me embalmed
Till I know no pain
And my tears
Fall like pearls of light
To adorn your path
As you float and flow
An ocean of love
And fill my little puddle
Till it is fast asleep
On your breast
A moon full
That never ebbs
And my eyes blind
See nothing but
Your light
In a night that
Never ends
A night that is all light.