Memory Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

While night is deep,
Moonlight is dull,
Lying on the back
‘Neath dark sky,
I count stars,
Scattered around.

As eyes slip
From star to star,
My thoughts recede
To the vast sky
Of the endless past,
And sparkling stars
Of the memories’ lane.

A glow there I find
Seizing the sky,
Horizon to horizon,
That lights the sky,
And dulls the stars.

Seeking what it’s,
I look within –
Lo, you, I find,
Emerging from horizon
Of the long lost past
As divine light
From all around.

I find deep stir
Awakening me
To the truth of you,
Though from the past,
But transcends it,
And laces times –
Past and present,
Future and beyond,
To eternal glow.

Pain and pleasure,
Joy and grief,
I find in you
Transcending itself
To divine sensation,
And in its presence,
I go to trance.

Impatient as I’m,
I try to grab
The truth to present,
And yearn to bring
The glow from the past
To light the present.

As I stretch my hand
To the ceaseless sky,
I reach nowhere,
And find your glow
Recede backward,
And move nearer,
While I draw back.

Is it hide and seek
You play with me?
Mouse and cat game
Why you suffer me with?

Heavy in chest,
Tears in eyes,
I resign to fate
And shut my eyes
Farer from the sky,
So, no divine glow
Stirs me any more.