When I Look Into The Sky......... Poem by lalitha iyer

Peeping
at night
into the sky
I could see
the light of the eyes
of dear ones
when I am really sad
and ache for them bad
I could feel
their love peel
and twinkles heal
my bleeding scar

When alone
hours of empty eats me up
when the truths
staggers me with unexpected deaths
when the babies of love
my dearest ones
fall dead one by one
and truth is slapped
upon my face
when from my kneeling down
I am forced to stand up and scowl
when the tides of life
movies alike kids me into oldie
I pray in full volume
at heart looking above the skies

then I could hear them whisper
the loved ones in the stars
I sleep into my sorrows
digging sweet burrows
into their mesmerising clouds
they permit me to climb up
and sit upon their radiant laps
soft caress
with their cosmic licks

At times I lie to myself
that they are there
my loved ones dead
that they send me rains
when I am parched dry
send me rays
when I shiver in cold
that they kiss me with gale
when I yearn for some soothening shade.