Lotus' Dreams Poem by Saroj Padhi

You are biting your nails
as I gaze at the startled stars of your eyes
that seem to measure the depth of my love
in the hollows of my shallow body —
aching with the miseries of drought and flood
in the land of my roots, in the flow of my famished blood.
You scratch the earth beneath your feet too
with your toes painted in the scarlet pain of my heart
that has been longing for you
since the dawn of the first sun in my life
with the promise of a salvation in your setting streaks
How much I long to be the pink flesh
under your tooth and nail
biting me slowly into an oblivion of sorts
before scratching away the cover of illusion
from my face
with the touch of your feet
on the wet ground of my unconscious self
and sending my soul into a trance
under the spell of your quaint silence!