She came
smiling
like the moon peering over mountain
like water leafing over rock
like frozen music
sweet and full of spirit
as she got off the car.
And hearts stop and
stutter
as an evening wind
brings the image-issue
in the sky of a dying sun.
He forgot himself
forgot the violin and all he knew
of string and bow
as she sat on gold hued carpet
listening, learning,
saw he long fingers dance
on violin string.
You are the violin
in my hand
music is nothing if
not your voiceand as you caress my heart string
you draw out music as yet unheard.
I was blind, was without speech
until I saw,
until I heard
you.
The countless stars
lit up the
limitless universethe moon grazed on tree top
with its cloud entourage
the blue shades of the bamboo grove
played and played
on the river’s gurgling waters
in the dim-light of dusk;
and you
whispered soft music
into my ready ear.
The moonlight-white
of breast and
nipplethat grazed and pinched garment;
did you not notice
the immense pain
it inflicted?
And day by day
new and renewedyou arrived
and when you did, sweetness,
I felt
again and again
‘I have nothing!’
[Parts I, II and III were published in www.malindapoetry.blogspot.com]
