Fall BCR

Fall

Deep beyond the purple sky

Into the sunken sun

Where oceans hold horizons

Dwells beloved one...

I cannot see so far, I only see

Sun light glisten upon the sea

Glaring reflection of a vast

Distance that maddens me. 

Even if I teeter over the edge of earth

Fall fast and hard into deep sundown

Into scarlet pools of bleeding streams

My skies bruised with your abusive frown

My love, it flayed its tender skin

Into seeping scabs of broken dreams

There's nothing I see, that you can see

Thick blind curtains curtail vision’s seams.

My inner glance, so monk like, visionary,

There you dwell, my sacrilege

My sacrifice of propriety, 

Honour forsaken for you liege.

What are these thoughts, such bosom friends,

Consorts of covertness, ugly shame,

My shaking veil in stiff denial always, 

And pain its constant attendant.

While morning cock crows nonchalance 

While as one, we turn a stony face 

Towards the lover fate allotted 

Towards blank wall, hearts averted.

A stony dam of denial breeds

Breaching which is love's labour lost 

And even if you were Hercules.

Our breath is still, a slack “Alas.”

Exhalation of exhaust dreams 

Susurration of weary breeze 

Nature's loneliest observer

Would lament woes like these.

We pin each other to the cross

We ask of love what it may not give

We are damned if we do, or don’t,

We hope the universe may forgive.

Courage evicted along with 

Adam and Eve, for a contract 

Of eternal damnation’s grief, 

Guilty accommodation of 

Non-compliant rebellious thieves.

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© Amrita Valan 2014