In my consciousness

In my consciousness do you exist

In my mind does your beauty persist

My mind was a room with blank walls

Your presence filled it with your murals

The sky was once filled with stars

Your presence painted there your frescoes

I was sober and awake to the world perceived

Until the wine of your presence flooded

I got drunk by the wine and was intoxicated

Wilfully in the river of your wine I submerged

Yet another victim your wine claimed

In your prison was I bound and chained

You are none other than my beloved

Thy divine waters of love do send

Let them flood across time and space

And drown me in the wine of your presence

2 beloveds

A lover am I of 2 beloveds
They are my two eye beads

The earthly beloved's presence is always ephemeral
The heavenly one's presence is always eternal

The earthly one I rarely see
The heavenly one is always with me

The earthly one is far away
The heavenly one I see in every way

The earthly one knows not my love
The heavenly one is the source of my love

The earthly one has shut herself somewhere
The heavenly one welcomes me everywhere

The earthly gives me a lot of pain
The heavenly one pours blissful waters of rain

The earthly one does not even at me glance
The heavenly one always puts me in a trance

Both are my passion
Both are my obsession

When I submerge in their love
They merge into one another

I drown in this ocean of love
And all that remains is the beloved

The cemetery of desires

I stood all numb without feeling

Several graves spread out before me

A freshly dug grave was there

A coffin contained for you my desire

A futile desire it had died out

By the disease of unfulfilled deep longing

People felt sorry and came to offer

Their condolences as they lowered

The coffin of the desire and

Buried it in the cemetery of desires

None could understand what I went through

Tears that flowed were the symptom of my broken heart

A monument placed on it read

Here lies a desire that loved

And longed so much that it died

With the intense longing unfulfilled.

Prison of your longing

A prisoner am I in the

Prison of your longing

My feet are chained

By the fear of losing you

I was a free once upon a time

But your beauty imprisoned me

Without your beautiful presence

The dungeon seems dark as night

And when you appear for a brief moment

I forget the prison,myself and only

You remain for like an ocean

you submerge everything in the universe

You are verily my universe

And your beauty is boundless

And when you go away, you

leave me drenched with

The pure water of your memory

I find myself all drenched

And bound in the prison

of your longing, for

Only you have the key

to liberate me from

This tortuous life

And let me submerge

Into the ocean of your heart

And blissfully drown in it

Falcon

I was perched on the tree very still

Until you flew past me in the night sky

Like a shooting star in the night sky

And I stood transfixed for all of a sudden

There was only your beautiful form

Unaware was I of the tree,my body or my self

My robes were colorless,

You painted them with your color

My love for you makes me soar

Like a falcon in the sky of your longing

The fair wind of the memories of your beauty

Pushes me onward towards your city

Your city is an impregnable fortress

Your soldiers try to drive me away

By showering the sky with arrows

Hurt I go back to the woods and

Nurse my wounds, only to see your

Beautiful form streak across the sky again

And I forget the wounds, the body and myself

All that remains is but your beauty

And I again take off, unaware of

Sun,rain or wind, I reach near your city

I try to reach you city again and again

I find the doors of your palace closed every time

The day you open the windows of your palace

I will enter inside never to come out

For their remains not me, nor

The palace nor the woods

But then there exists only you

In you presence I forget all and myself