My Love For You Poem by Saroj Padhi

My love for you
alternates like a dark cloud
between the Sun and rain,
its fringe lightened by rays
but center seething in futile pain;

to find a voice thro thunder
a pounding heart to lighten,
waiting for a meaningful lightning
sparks in your flinty heart to awaken;

but Time is cloaked in
misty drizzles of uncertainty
without the power or desire
to rake up new embers in vein;

my love for you sleeps like
the mythical giant Kumbhakarna
in eternal wait for the right moment
to slay the monkeys of desires mundane;

my love for you lives like a sage
on the cloud-kissed mountain
to touch clouds floating over its head
and for the rays slowly to brighten.