Sleepless Roses Poem by Saroj Padhi

Roses shed tears of different shades this night
of agony and ecstasy, of repentance and reunion
of endless impotent waiting and pathetic retreat,
of break-ups, betrayals, bliss and consummation;

baby buds terrified by enormous smokes from mortars
close eyes and hastily shed wishes for gossamer dresses
as their souls beneath glossy skin lie in deep bunkers
they recoil at the unholy stares at their vulnerable faces;

the bird in bush hungers for rose in hands of those lovers
who tirelessly whisper silence into the ears of eternity
under bower of moon-struck, joyful tree in silent shivers
rejoicing in the music of flute from singing birds in bounty;

o how varied are the streams of tears from roses in fire
for whom blinded bees in love their love so openly do blare!