Travelling over Time

Traveling over Time


Over the anxiety of hills,
And deserts shrouded in sand,

A backpack slung over my shoulder
Packed with the tidbits of love
Destination unknown
Unknown fate

Packing has been easy
But, the unpacking!!

Fermenting cheese,
Whispering blobs floating on buttermilk
Soaking up sand from the horizontalised
Hourglass

Traveling over Time

Phantom love under rainy trees
And the murmur of decaying leaves
Shimmering beaches
Where salty water belches into the hollows of my footsteps
As I inch towards survival.

Ignorance is a fear-fuelled chronicle
Bliss, the unbolted metal trunk of freedom
With doors opening around you all the time

Over fuming pyramids
And sand dunes corroded with darkness
Weightless over the haunting call of the muezzin
Over hooded eyes
Gypsy skirts
Candle lights flickering
Over beseeching eyes

Take this love off me
Prise it off-
It is too weighty to be carried to the grave.
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Time Series & Other Poems 2005
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