The Goddess Of Water - Vaaruni (Iambic Hexameter) Poem by Sathya Narayana

THE GODDESS OF WATER - VAARUNI

Suddenly there's a brilliant light. I found my friend...
aho...is she the lovely Nereid, poised upright
amidst the ocean streams with flowing limbs and face
with bubbling grace? ! She wore a saffron dress, adorned
sacred ashes across her wide forehead and red
Sindhoor amidst those cinder smears oh like a round,
conflagrant Sun, glowing before a cloudy sky!
Oh no, no Nymph is she! Alas I realised not!
Oh smiling there before my trembling form is She,
my Deity, my Goddess, my Guru kind. I ran
insane along the bay, reciting hoarse Her names!
How many oh Her names, which name to choose, and by
which name to call! I cried, I whined and sobbed aloud!

(Nereid: one of the 50 daughters of ocean God, Nereus)