This Body And Mind

I am checkmated

and can’t make kingly move

this union has put shackles all around

to slow me like a cattle with harness bound

a time hither to now,

I had a free go-

climbed up to the hill top

and hip-hop I could do

or dipped my legs in knee dip water

or threw potsherds to make the river to splatter

or tried my freedom at Devkund

when for hours the fountain made me spellbound

lay etherized on the lea all wintry-noon

and lost the pangs of the heart so soon

still, this mind

I have honed very stout and strong

that shakes all girdles and garters it does expunge

to dream all azure and all things new

that wakes me up to walk with you

when the evening is spread out

in the distant meadow

and the shameless stars

peep through the cleavages of thin clad cloud

and the evening bites her lips

standing amidst the crowd

upon your all swaying cakewalk

The spring rushes early pushing away the fall

the gnats mellophone and the scent of wild jasmine enthrall

the breeze blows the flute of love

and the frenzied Sunaa forgets her fury and moves like a dove

when thou fall into my arms

and I whisper banters into thy ears

seeing two hearts melt like ice so soon

shreds of beams do sprinkle the jovial moon

the pleasure we get while beside me you lie

like the moths when they on the fire bay play.