A Wait, Infinite

Night stirred memories, once forgotten Of the days I burnt with love When you consumed my days And I carried you like a queen In the palanquin of my thoughts Without fore thought, to elbow out The marauding of thorny memories I set out, travelling miles, My heart throbbing in my chest My nimble legs shaking and trembling And finally reaching your hermitage Casting away my stilted pride Expectant and anxious, I waited at your doorstep To seize the moment To renew a commitment And knocked hopefully at your door, So far never opened before anyone While listening intent For the approaching foot steps And the sound of the key Turning on the latch Did I see a face peering through the window, And quickly withdraw? Was it the face I longed to see? Might not be or else, I would have Been admitted in. Time skipped quickly by Hours flitted between the limping dawn And the staggering night Initially I knew the tedium of waiting And the crushing weight of Time on me Soon I lost count of it Like an alien, how long had I waited there Weeks, months or years? It must have been a pretty long wait I knew roots had grown under my feet And my body had vegetated into a tree But without leaves and fruits! That too must have shed In course of time! I wonder if I ever lived Or ever died In Time’s eternal motion The tree will remain there As a trunk of fossilized hope Till your love charges life into it!