The Evening Beyond End

The Evening Beyond End

The sky lay out satiny carpet embalming
Earth with dark duvet
The quilt worked  exquisitely
With mythic pinpricks of light,
The Host refulgent amongst all stars
Venus ushering in silky bolts of shadows...
The evening wefting and warping
In tricky descent.

Rose a few glimmers of other Stellas,
Treyas and Estelles less prominent,
Divas in their own right, dots of mystical
After thoughts random dropped
On blue green muslin slowly darkening
Its ink....gravitas, celebrating,
Accelerating towards rich velour.

My child threw his head back and kick started
The merry go round, one foot dangling,
Hanging on to handlebars with two hands and a
Casual foot slung in....
Spherical velocity tensing tiny muscles,
breathless, laughing in dizzy merriment,
Circling his field of joy, his centrifugal dreams.
I wish I could have seen his small patch of sky.
Before centripetally predetermined course
Lulled him into it's pull of order.

My own mouthful of dreams fading in the west
Where trees joined palms to fan ancient breeze...
Gentle vespers....whispered
Namaste....
Divinity ardent, self supplications
Of an universe,
God's prayer wheel in motion
In praise of His constant glory.

Dazzling exhibit, stupefaction of senses
The artist's masterpiece on display.
Piercing my heart into a million brilliant shards
Small jagged pieces
Of puzzling beauty...
I must put together some day
Before this world draws its fine net mesh of
Oblivion over my greedy eyes...
Before the luminous shards can pierce
My suffused lungs
Astounding breath.

Forever drinking beauty...
The fire of Djinns and Gods.
The allure of attar sprinkles into the aroma
Of roses and marigolds
Memories like silt deposits
Of miracles.

I cannot take in enough....
salting away the stunning
sadness of night claiming day forever
Its herald,
Offered such fleeting
Stewardship.

Bright lights up on high,
Pavement of stars
Astonishing luminaries

Mend or amend our
Broke back dreams...
I have been baptized by Day.
Venus lead me bright beauty
Into yonder stellar Night.

© Amrita Valan 2015