My Phantom Love Poem by Himanshu Mishra

As I crawl myself through the shady heath
There's a keen quiver in my dusky breath
I look aside to what the trees reveal
My eyes don't see what the soul can feel

My legs now cease to walk with you
My lips now freeze to talk with you
'Go! Back away in your real world'
Hope they give pleasure, to my dear girl

My lungs suffered and my heart ached
Thy gorgeous innocence when I faced
She took my hand and held it firm
She pulled me close and I got numb

My limbs rebelled and my legs shiver
As she led me through the endless woods
From sudden nowhere then came a river
To soothe away all the nature's toots

Ah! It was vast as if were an ocean
Why she took me here is beyond my notion
She stepped ahead and opened her arms
To welcome the sun, to feel its warmth

She looked behind with her lovely smile
Made my heart pound like a baby child
'Come with me', all here eyes were saying
Faith in me, was all here face displaying

I held her hands and we stepped ahead
Currents of water from the ocean's bed
Touched our feet and invited us in
The blues of peace, the lovely serene

I looked behind to the shady heath
In the hazy world, in the dusky green
Then I looked ahead with a heavy breath
To leave the world with a humble scene

The water pranced and the ocean roared
My breath suffered with the one I adored
There wasn't a pain but the eternal pleasure
Swallowed us two so deep to measure

My aching healed and the numbness recovered
The dream was gone, on pictures of her
I tried to recall but was only for vain
For something to be true I was in the woods again