Flame Poem by Saroj Padhi

Now you are an elusive bite between my faltering lips
Desiring but dithering at the jagged edges;
A half-spelt beat in an unevenly thumping heart
Striving hard to reshape your broken images.

The rays of youth that fathomed the impenetrable region
Of your fragrant darkness, have mellowed
Into an ageing river of timid flow near the mouth of a sea
Not knowing when the waters engulfed.

A riddle somewhere in between passion and compassion
Needs be resolved before images are complete for reunion.

Come, join here in the dance of these crazy moon beams
Before the final flame consumes our love's silent screams.