A Tale Of Two Burning Hearts

Lo...darling! Time and Space Have separated us Away from each other. As the still air Carries no essence, Although petals emit them Off the flowers- As the still water Carries no current Though waves exist Upon its bed of slumber... So does the still time And the dead still space Between you and me, Between hearts and hearts, Between the burning desires Bluer than the Sea, Bluer than the sky, Bitterer than the torturing distance, Sweeter than the morning note, sung- In the hottest of the summer days By the bird called Cuckoo, the ever Silence breaker and The breaker of the hearts! ! Dayal Bagh, Agra, 11.02.1997