A Love Song

by Bharati Nayak

Dear

I love you

But You are not you

You are that beauty

Which fills me with light

You are that hand

Which picks out the thorns

From my feet.

You are that presence

Which is ever present

In my happiness and darkness

Dear

On my cloudy sky

You are the color

Which makes the rainbow

And You appear

As the North star

In a directionless weather.

You are not the Red Rose, but

The red of the Rose

You are not the Rose

But the thorns that

Guard the Rose.

Dear

You are the song of the songbird

Blue of the Blue sky, and

Green of the Green leaves

It does not matter

Where that You lives

For I feel You

As the oxygen-filled air

Circulating around me

And You will stay here

As a shaft of light

And the last piece of my breath.

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