Abhay Vignesh Liginlal

Why do I keep loving you, again & again, life after life?
I am trapped in a cycle of birth & death, as a prisoner of just this love
You have made my world a paradise & life a boon of rebirth
Your every touch vibrates the strings of my heart, playing the endless tune of love;
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Flying into the sky of my dreams
From the cage of life
You perch on branches & fields
Dainty bird that you are
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My love for you is a boundless ocean
But the world can only see drops of it,

My feelings about you flow incessantly
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Years have dragged
After you left your footprints
On my heart’s barren surface,
The mark of love
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Weigh the memory never to be
Cold wind wild in the sky of mind
Joy sowed seeds in the field of time
And now paddies burst with light green dreams
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You came silently in the dark with a lone lamp
While united we watch the stars in the sky
Beaming back and forth in the world’s eye
Like a mirror reflecting a mirror
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And my father told me then
As in this poem I pass to you
‘What you have pursued is your ego’s road’
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Day by day I keep seeing in the same radiant features
Flicker of evergreen love,
In the same divine image
Colour of celestial lust,
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You have no time to write they say
For you can lay no claim to fame
What do I say to a busy world
Where fragments live in oblivion
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Migratory birds roved in plenty
Through the wilderness
And thereon embarked in union
In a ship of flight with rudders
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Drunk with the elixir of ecstasy
He sings the song of manhood,
The artist paints cycles of life
With colours of love,
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Where will I be, after years, in this uncharted sea of life
Who all will be my friends & what all my passions
What will remain of this world I see today
What painful memories will remain blurred
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Call frailty a detached bud
And call the flower a frame of grace
Call the leaf a medium
And call the wind a messenger,
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Those days are lost forever, to the depths of the past
While the tide of memories, will bring them back,
Oh a pity, that I belong to the shore called today‘
While I can just watch the sea, which stretches beyond my reality,
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I pass in a boat now my lonely hour
As the west wind blows
Beneath the evening sky,
Branches of palm trees sway
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Break, break and let me break myself
From this cycle of ages and night
Let me trade with the dust of eternal time
These sparks and hours of glory;
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I tear a poem from love and rhyme
When feelings are wrought from reason,
Life a candle dazzles with hopes flame
And the wax of time keeps melting,
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My seasons are fragrant with one blossom
That is you and you alone
But now I leave to fulfill my destiny
Yet there is always a wayside view
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Memories float away down the river of time
Into a narrow abyss of oblivion,
I am a traveller who floats down the stream of life
In search of the brink of the horizon,
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All is lost forever
The light has faded from the brink of the horizon
The season of dreams has ended once and for all
There will be no more festivals in my life
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