Ever since I remember my dreams
Earth's finest treasure, you,
daughter of her wisest son
Your smile carried me across
dreams of aeons, universes, wombs
In the first dawn, we were but one
But here I stand today at this shore
Slow-spreading colors of the day
Seeped you in red and led to earth
While I, deep blue, stayed afloat
in a nameless, etherless sky
Until the day arrived when
Your greying mother craved for color
We merged again, you and I
And all colors that made light
Fate wove many dreams together
and left us alone in dense forests
of gay abandon, where magical
deers sprang on ascetic desires
And I lost you to the great skies,
to the oceans, the first color that held me
your eyes, Shiva's poisoned throat
And here I stand today at this shore
I am your Rama, I am your Radha,
My love, defeat death with desire
and wait for me at that alcove
of secret unmourned memories
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