The Temptress Ii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Thinkest not thou that thou have not
Caused the miseries and pains
That thy love inflicted on my soul
From the Helen in the troy or the Eve
From Eden did I sacrifice my divinity
In the deep mystery of love thou have cast
My wondering spirit reinvent the goddess

But the lover as was I
To reveal to the world
In the flights of my imagination
Houris or Venus or Rekha

My tears did flow like the holy Jamuna
On the Nile did I build temples of gold
The beauty of mind thou speakest
Did I have but thou only enlightened
Like Mona Lisa before the great Da Vinci

Lover am I for the shrine of thy beauty
On the beat of drum when I am drunk
With wine old in the memory of those lips
Wine and wine and red wine
When thou art the saki in the tavern of my heart
(A sequel to 'As beautiful as me part 3' by poetess Reshma Ramesh)
24/9/2008