SOHNI

I sit sipping my cup of hot tea. Listening to raag “Sohni”. As I drown deeper and deeper-
She emerges like a goddess from the oceans of love.

I sit. My eyes closed.

Eyes obstruct vision. Just as words veil eloquence.

I drown deeper and deeper. At the bottom I find that the first note of music is not “sa”.
Just a “hmmm” that reverberates from the bottom of ones own soul.

She smiles. She always does. Like the sun that never sets.
Only that her smile is like a bouquet of a million smiling suns!
That reveals the universe
In all its abundance.

Somewhere between the intervals between two breaths a heartbeat of mine does an “aadaab”. Her eyes return the favor with warmth.

Our breaths meet. And burn like the eternal fire that sanctifies the profanity of desires.

Two lovers. And they love without desiring each other.
Like the two banks of a river that holds the river together.

I get up. My tea cup is empty. And slowly the song fades out.
I emerge with my eyes open and drown within me.