From imploding sky
to the upturned stone
from bare earth
to the bleached bone
I sought the traces of eternity…
but the ubiquity
of sin
time’s passion and
destiny’s grin
turned tear to pebble
blood to seeping gold
prodigal son
to a timeless rebel
and I drift
from ancestral betrayal
to the alchemist’s mold
like chaff in the wind
and pestle’s pulverized ash
I – the ultimate seed
etched in the mirror of sun
abreast the sodden soil
I – the zygote of eons
swallowed by the dust of yore
have surfaced here
amidst your ripening flesh
by the heaving sea
and now
as conspiracy
against primordial plot
we traverse the heathen land
from Mongolian plain
to antediluvian rain
from Persian dust
to gomorrah’s lust
from neolithic grain
to the paramount pain
from the fertile valley
of the nile
to the petrified sands
and the barren soil
amidst memory of greed
and testimonies of dire calamities
and spiritual need
we – aghast
in nocturnal gloom
against all odds
and the verdict of doom
run – like tempests
whispers of a sage
last tremors of the ageless wind
from the licking fires
and volcanic spasm
deep down
into abyss
of corporeal chasm!
a vestige – a hisssssss…
of love’s obstinate embrace
the lovers’ timeless kisssssss…