Whispering Shadow

Whispering shadow Drenched darkness of loam Under the crust of earth Reassures sprout seedlings Roots of emotions Delve in heart for stream Revealing no identity For thorn or flower For sweet or sour For hatred or love! You slammed your window panes every evening And clumsily screened curtains the way A bubbling spring Dashing on rocks of dismay An amorous intrusion You wanted to keep at bay! A lonesome gaze By opaque hint of eyes Might have splashed Into the blue lagoon That gladly reemerges In your cozy solitude Real enough To implant irrevocable kiss on his heart Between the pages of book you read Behind the dressing mirror you glimpsed On shining blade of cookery you used You saw him You pinched yourself And you didn’t wake up Until lugubrious shrill Of mid-night bird Walloped ripples of numbness Flailing lure crept around In oozing darkness Out of invitingly open window Like a white ghost! In my obscurely fettered conscience Crystals of conflict sparkled Deep seated within An amorphous mixture of The obstinate lust for looking And some old love!