The Lovers Of Auroville

I have loved you

Since the day I peeked

Out of the sultry sullen earth,

And I caught your shadow

Dancing to a nightly breeze

From the sea not far.

I have watched you sway

Singing our song

Tall against the moonlight,

And I have danced a little too.

You have nurtured me,

Touched me with grace

In days good and bad,

And I have found love

On land men named Auroville.

Oh, how I have loved you

For centuries,

Under a star-strewn abyss.

I have laughed with you

At the sun and the moon

And their unending courtship dance.

I have stood in rain and in drought,

Growing together,

Carefree and careless.

I have watched men come and go,

As they struggle with love

In a failing grace.

I have stories to tell

Of kindred spirits that travel

Beneath the dusty mess.

I have heard jolly tales

Of a wanderer and his lust

From our feathered friends.

And I wonder

Of the centuries to come,

In a wishful trance.

What if we travel

To a foreign land

Like old lovers in a Cuban romance?