Poem In My Heart
Open roads softly
Open up to me vistas
Of wistfulness
Roads to nowhere
To unknown places.
I who have never been anywhere or seen anything
I have peeped through peeled eyes and eager palms and gentle skin of heart
felt sensations foreign to me.
I have seen a river
Broad and deep and calm with sun, setting into sinking branches dipped in it
Like fingers seeking benediction in hallowed waters...
I have had such a longing to kneel as if in church, by the grassy banks of rivers that turn and return to your mystery....
I am sitting in God's pews
Putty in his hand trembling upon beauty of his altar,
Where he sets his stage of splendor.
I'm in the czar's crystal palace of ice sinking shivering towards deaths chilly arms
And freezing in abandon....
Then
Thawing in release...
It was winter,
Now its summer...
Its spring flowers upon unknown indolent hillsides
Its haunting autumn music in mysteries of tumultuous blue skies
Its lush green reveries of silent summery twilight....
My heart beats a tremulous saga of stories I have heard of beautiful places
Where I haven't been born
Yet my soul beheld....
My evanescent soul
Which radiates infinite spokes into eternity ring of life
And spreads out in sweetheart rippples of ecstatic gratitude
in this endless cosmic pool of
Countless chances challenges and charms
Which I bathe in
Immersing never to resurface
to dive into the very depths
Of my enchanting life....
© Amrita Valan 2014
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