Birthday Greetings Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

You arose in the monsoon sky at Malshej
And shared the room with my wife and me,
Was in Delhi at IETF, but not in Khajuraho;

We have been more than friends
But less than what others thought.

Travelling transmuted express and email
Desires probed restrained overpowered
And truth-and-peace
Sought from Igatpuri to Krishnamurti
To Osho.

Divorced and free, tough and radical
You held me - middle-class, square and prudish -
I am brought up
To avoid 'sin' at all costs:
Neither money nor woman ever made me
Lose track.

But under your moon-lit sky,
I stagger, almost had lost my way....
Did I fall in love?

Let me blow a Happy Birthday towards you,
In advance for the next Birthday in March 2010.