Your Light

By Anish Kumar

By the vow of your kindness, O keeper of wine

Let the cup keep circling, let the tavern still shine.

Let joy in the courtyard forever ascend,

One falter, one rising –  the story won’t end.

Not only dews make a garden shine,

sometimes the flames does too.

Tears must fall from tired eyes,

and smoke must rise from broken hearts –

both belong truth.

The world’s design resets within your command,

A desert may bloom, turn to gardens on sand.

At each of your glances , the flowers awake,

At each of your gestures , the seasons remake.

Your hair falls across your face

Like midnight spilling into dawn.

And I wonder –

how much longer can a heart 

pretend  it can hold itself strong ?

Your beauty is stained with longing,

Painted with faith,

And such portraits do not change.

Time may shift its colors,

But you remain.

By Anish Kumar