A Desert Flower*

Just four or five months If only you bear with my unsightliness There, yonder on the frame of this rugged body I give birth to an amazing flower That flower with its fleeting prettiness Will balance your months of tolerance With utmost ease The flower will swing at the end of the creeper With joy you can never get at My body may gash the fingers that touch me But within me I bring to life a dainty flower That turns red just at mere touch Within, I bear a wondrous beauty To give shape to an amazing beauty Beyond your imagination Your eyes’ thirst for color do I quench With a handful of good looks I’ve drawn from my desert inheritance Flower may wither But with memories fresh I make you savor the experience Of a love eternal, for me Just four or five months If only you bear with my unsightliness There, yonder on the frame of this rugged body I give birth to an amazing flower *Original in Telugu by Vinnakota Ravishankar 06 Oct 2010 23.27hrs