Annihilated am I
By your tenderness –
Merging myself
With you among glow worms
Under the stars melting
In the rain
Like waxen light
From candles falling on
And illuminating
Green leaves and vines
On the trellis heavy
With grapes of the dark red variety.
Annihilated am I
By your power
Over me –
As I melt like stars
In the rain and turn into
Candles at your feet;
Radiant with waxen light,
We illuminate our leaves and vines
On the trellis heavy
With grapes of the dark red variety.
~ Jagari Mukherjee
Kolkata, India