There was once a wayfarer
Who fell in love with the sea
To him she was rhythm
An unending reverie
He would stand upon a rock
Hugged by the fluid sand
And tales of a thousand waves
Would rise to kiss his hand
He loved her raging silence
He loved her every hue
He loved with such freedom
That the sea loved him too
Her love was ceaseless motion
A storm in every drop
Time locked in a surging wave
'twas space in her timeless deep
From the shores would come his summoning
The quiet of his eyes aflare
The nudge of his toes in her trembling sands
His breath that would kiss the air
That kiss would waft with the fusioned haste
Of the breeze and the blushing rays
And would sink weightless to her waiting depths
Like the touch of a loving gaze
One kiss to fill her being
To set her dark aglow
One kiss to set her heaving
With passions high and low
She would swirl through the sands
Of distant shores
And smother faraway lands
Yet, her roar would turn to a whisper
As she'd come to where he stands
He'd watch with drunken eyes
And she would curve into bashful waves
He would watch till the stars would gather
And romp in her moonlit caves
Not once had he touched her waters
And yet he knew her well
He'd smile with amused knowing
At her eager hesitant swell
One day the sea sighed
And darkened the graying sky
I know not this tale's beginning
But that day it's end was nigh
Neither joy nor sorrows embrace
Would bring this saga's end
To the ground of sedate thinking
That the heart wouldn't dare transcend
He stood 'pon yonder cliff
Like the silence of glorious death
Was it the wind that chiffed at the horizons
Or the force that was freed in his breath
His hands spread wide to hug the sky
He walk'd till the end of stone
The sheath of his soul fell like a dream
Of the night into which it was thrown
He rose as the spirit of higher skies
And flew like fantasy's wind
He merged with the sea, her waves and her tides
Like the colors of dawn's horizon
Blessed be the love of the man his sea
Blessed this eternal union
Blessed be this tale of nature's symphony
Where the sea and her man were one.
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4 comments:
ah!! after a long time kada. suepr bhai nuvvu! as usual, lovely.
a union that only your verse could justify. what a pleasure to read about rhe man and the sea i know or wish to know...
U finally wrote about the sea... or u didint!
mesmerising, moving,!!
My eyes glisten each time i read this
This is good stuff, flows without breaking or jerking... full of yearning bridled by grace. Well written.
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