Love Alone Poem by Sreekala Sivasankaran

They were trying to define beauty
Truth, justice, strength
In all fairness and darkness
Let it be so
We stood high on the hill
Bare in the balcony
Gleaming in the green canopy
Stumbling upon the flowers
Thrown on the ground
Slipping down the edges
Falling into the abyss
Until you came
In the form of a memory
A gift --
Throbbing inside
Moving the elephant hill
That was unable to move
Unable to fall in the hurricane
Unable to see its own height
In the falling rays of sunlight
I can now bend down to the earth
To the sands
To catch a breath of you
That smell of you-
In a drop of water
They call it passion
Call it sustenance of spirit
Instilled in me in the fading time
Where there was none,
But you, the love of life
The promise of next meeting

-Sreekala Sivasankaran