Dont Give Your Heart....

Don't Give your Heart....

Don't give your heart to just a pretty face
A pretty face doesn't shine always
Swift the lucre dissolves to dirty grime
Life makes us sweat as we do our time.

And Time plays cheap tricks on easy hearts
No crime this,  but our just desserts
To be naive and a gullible fool
And just crave the glittery shine
Colored candy cotton wool.

Oh! learn to lean into the inner mind
Cherish the creases such lovely lines
That her anxious cares for you define.

Yes, and if she cares a jot for you
And not how she has you wrapt
around her fingers,
That will  never snap,
To make you jump at her bidding
Then that face of hers is
Every inch worth your reading.

Not passive or babyish or bland visage
Not a coy plasticity of vague mirage
But a clear mirror of love light
you must understand.

Lovely is the dark shade of even most sunscorched trees
Tired wilted bowing in life's listless breeze
Shelter you craved that cradles you
so unstintingly,
Never scorn it for a youthful blossoming limb.

Hold her hands that's rough yet ready
Her blisters tattooed third degree burns
Of servitude, chiselled and branded
with the loads she undertook.

Pleasant are sugary coquettish interludes
Of  pretty flowers wilting in temptation's bough
But only love carries the magic wand somehow
Only love knows the straight yellow road
To wonderland
Where Time itself is helpless to take its toll
And stands forever transformed into stillness-Now.

Love will withstand all test of time
Make plainest eyes and gaze
A poetic charm
Of times thrice, trine
A placid lake of bottomless depth and ease
Matching your moods rhyme for rhyme.

And there's such prettifying in a loyal face
Heaven itself would fall in a daze and praise
Give all your heart to that gentle grace
And happiness on earth will blaze
Ever and ever
And all your children's race
Will imbibe the magic of your days
Of Endless love
Truer than all worlds, religions,
Faiths, true above all
Time and space.

© Amrita Valan 2015