ARUNASSAM
an e magazine from ASSAM & NAGALAND

For me, it has already begun
Like a beacon of the future
In my existence of the present
Deluged with emotions fecund and fervent
As marvelling as the thought
Of your timeless love and passion
Imploding into my entire whole
From a radiance of your beauteous soul

A moment it is until then
While my vision remains unflickered
My mind intent and solid as ever
As if in a search for self together
Within and without incessantly
To the elements of life beyond
For:that love which permeates all space
Embraces only ours in a vanishing nearness

It is red in the distance
Where the hills lie low
Scrubby, and a few scattered firs
Upon the grey of the earth
Or last year's dead grass
I really don't know !

It is what lies beyond
To the far end of the earth-line
As the earth, grass and trees
Abruptly mingle to become one
Into the serene unknown

For that is why
I cry so often
In my fruitless pine…

This afternoon
All of a sudden
An erratic whiff
With a rustle on the
Bougainvillea
And laden with a daydream
Heavy and eyeful
Made me wonder
That
All I feel
Could be so
Eternally
Sweet, simple and tender