I Won'T Let You Age. Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

I won't let you age
I will never let you age
In my mind there
is a spot where
there is a tinge
of elixir which I
discovered as if
in serendipity.


I don't want that
elixir for myself
I don't want to
stretch myself for
no purpose.
I would love to
remain what I am
destined to be.


But I won't let you age
I will never let you age
Slyly I passed on to you
that elixir without
your knowledge.
Why should you age
Age has to disintegrate
before you.


I deftly passed on
that elixir to your being
You can't age
You won't age
Thrive and weather down
age you must
For that's your wont


I won't let you age
I won't surely let you age
I want you to be green
forever and forever
Coz green never looked
more beautiful
when you are it.


I will then wither away
I will fade away
Into that recess of
termination that
time has kept for me.


Still I won't let you age
Even when I fall into
that recess I will look
back and feel elated
seeing your eternal
youth effulgent as ever.


I won't let you age
In my mind there is
only one you.
Untouched by ravages
of time and elements
Let that radiance
permeate me.


Let me be light
and travel past you
Without your knowledge
O time thou let
your vanity crumble
Let you be beaten
In my mind you
never can let her age.
You never can
let her age.
I won't let her age.