healing balm

Without you this world feels drab
Without you this life feels worthless

Without you the air feels lifeless
Without you the surroundings feel colorless

Without you each and every heartbeat feels painful
Without you even the best music feels like cacophony

Without you days do not seem bright
Without you nights do not feel warm

Losing prudence and judgement I have become
A prisoner desperately longing for you

And yet none of this makes sense to anyone but me
On whose shoulder shall I lean on?

In front of whom shall I cry?
Who would be fit enough to hear about this intense pain

I wait for the healing balm of your beautiful presence
In the infirmary for the love lorn

I wait for your warm embrace,
In the intolerably cold lonely night!

look into the gateways of my soul

As I sat one evening gazing listlessly

At the beauty of the endless night sky

My beloved said "hearken unto me"

And showed me images of my youthful beauty

Lost were those glorious manes, why oh why

In the bygone era was the face so fair and unmarred 

As I sat unable to fathom the meaning of it all

Remembering the good old days when victory was at my feet

Then came to my mind the dark days when things fell asunder

Battered and bruised was I by many a storm

And yet as I returned home shipwrecked and heart broken

Your presence was a healing balm to all my woes

And yet you show me pictures from ages ago

Look deep into my pain filled eyes I say

And do you not see the same set of eyes

Look into the gateways to my soul, to see how deep is my love for you! 

Cottage of Love

I have soared the skies of love
In your blessed company

I have sunk to the deepest depths of agony
In even a moment's seperation from you

The sane people of the town do not understand
The waxing and waning of a lover's heart

None but I can understand this pain
My heart cries tears like rain

Thorniest are the paths the lovers take
To hold the beloved in their arms

However painful the path, the drunkard does not care
He would go to any lengths to lose his sobriety

Stay by me and soothe my aching heart
For all other medicines are sold by quacks

For your sake I drowned my capriciousness in the sea
And built the cottage of love in my heart for you to stay

Afraid!

I was afraid of heights when I looked down from the mountains
I was afraid of the roaring  stream lest it take me to the deep abyss

But since I attained the Treasure Trove of your company
I fear even a minute's separation from you

Each and every second away from you feels 
Like the painful blows of a Blacksmith's hammer

Each and every moment spent in your arms
Acts like a healing balm soothing me back to health

Poets have always lost their sobriety when in love
And have sung painful ballads for their beloved

Who can understand this pain but myself
As I traverse the thorny road to your blessed company

I have driven away the false pretenses and prejudices in my heart
To build a palatial mansion of pure love for you to reside in!

Long tortuous route

A long tortuous route I took
After falling head over heals in love

Blows aplenty I received from the
Serrated arrows of attachment and love

The ego reared it's ugly head at times
To deliver blows of it's own 

Pain and heartache combined with strife 
This seemed to be my lot in life

And yet overpowering all this is an infinite love
Your  presence acts like a healing balm to every wound

I would weather a million such storms 
To be with you eternally.

As the lover waits

As the lover waits with bated breath looking listlessly about
Waiting to hear from his beloved
The tortuous route he takes through longing and separation
The path seems strewn with a million thorns
But endure the lover must too feel the warm embrace of the beloved
After crossing hill and dale and dark labyrinths
I finally see the light of a million lamps..
Momentarily  blinded I am aware of the sweet fragrance wafting throughout
And on opening my eyes I see I am in the beloved ' s presence
Long gone are the scars of separation
Healed are the wounds of longing
When I am in the beloved ' s embrace

What do others know?

As I was moving through a dark labyrinth
you rose in the night sky like a bright moon..
You sent your cool white rays
to help me walk towards you
I climbed abroad and ran towards you..
culminating in the highest ecstasy
People might mistake me for a drunk intoxicated on wine..
But what do others know what your love can do to me