Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Love Poem No. 31 : The Dream

THE DREAM


Yesterday was hell, I was cooked in fire
Though it winter was and all others cool;
When the cuckoo sang a melancholy fine and frail
I remembered Thee, forgotten for long for long.

Why am I such, my memory so fragile,
A wretched ungrateful pig, discarding my love?
Why such insatiable craze in the interior frame,
Is it Adam’s curse or mere earthly fire?

What ev’r be the curse, I feel that ashamed
To knock at Thy door, a chanced traveler;
I throw myself always into the dirty mire,
Consuming discarded waste, allured by hazardous spell.

Why fail to send some trusted messengers,
Who could conduct me straight to Thine own bower?
How long shall I crave, waiting for the call,
The day of our union, will that remain a dream?

Dr. Karickam


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