A Moonlit Night Poem by Preeth Nambiar

Through the window wide opened to the sky, tonight moonlight fell upon my bed! It is not a full moon day, but look at the world bathed in the flood… hear the chirping of the birds that might have woke up with a hallucination of another beautiful morning! This is another night, I rest upon the bed of sleepless thoughts, listening to distant footsteps!

Did my Lord send you, to caress my deepest pains? Within the room full of fragrance of the instant sticks that I burnt for Him, where the tune of meditation silently dances, my heart sings a melody that I cherished deep within my senses! Tired traveling miles, oh rays of tenderness, rest upon my heart- within the emptiness of my soul!

Hold my tired hands; take me to a sky where your cool rays meet the beauty of the sailing clouds! Set me free upon them to wander across the heavens to look at the earth! When the stars blush and disappear at your sight, let me travel with you, across the world asleep! Here raise my heart, filled with rejoice, to dance in ecstasy!

Embraced by tender touch, listening to the sweetest song let me remain here, until you disappear unto the morning rays. When the birds appear at the horizon announcing the arrival of the gold chariot that would seduce the world with its mesmerizing illusions, let me wait for another moonlit night, your rays touching the serenity of my being!

When you dance around my eyes, oh my dear, let me not sleep tonight! Holding your arms when I disappear unto you, let me raise beyond the senses - to the ether of profound joy! When you return to His abode, tell Him that you met one, awoke in midnight longing for your caress and that there were teardrops on his cheeks dipping down unto the earth!