THE MOMENT BEFORE DEATH

Dr,Sudhansu Dash

She comes with her unhaunted beauty

Without a noise

Her silent footsteps settle on me

Whispering to my ears

“I have come

Do not worry my absence

You are not mine but I am yours”

Every moment I am dying for my intimate Death

The smell it has left behind it

The impression you have sketched in my life

I am searching your enlightened darkness

 In all the darkest darkness of the earth

You flashed back in a moment

Leaving your mysterious presence

With a silent promise to return again

In the wings of a dove

Or in the darkness of my shadow.

I sit at my window with my two trusting eyes

Not to be betrayed

 By your indefinite tomorrows.

I am gathering all the lights of thousands of suns

But your darkness is brighter

To insult all lights.

So sweet you are in your taste

So fragrant you are in your smell

So delicate in your approch

I am afraid

Whether you will come or not

To sleep me in your warm bosom again

In that moment of celebration?

(In memory of a mild heart stroke the night before)